Roxane Gay Quotes

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist.

I tell you that men will always respect women when they compel it by their actions; and if women today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation the men would be compelled to grant it. The women of the country have the power in their hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.

One of the things that interests me about the Regency period is how women began to stir under the thumbs of men, wanting more and bigger freedoms.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament. Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.

I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.