Mary Kay Blakely Quotes

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

The veil is the mask of Egyptian women in a power struggle against the dictatorship of men…. The veil gives women more power in a man’s world.

I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home; that a woman should not aspire to achieve more than her male counterparts and, particularly, not more than her husband.

Men regarded women as a servant class in the community, and that women were going to remain in the servant class until they lifted themselves out of it.

It was not seen that woman’s place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.

The modern individual family is based on the open or disguised domestic enslavement of the woman.

I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.

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

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

Why am I not feminist? Maybe because I come from a country where my mother ruled my life. I never felt in any way that I couldn't achieve what I want.

'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.

Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist to keep women 'in their place.' To make sure that we're acting 'appropriately,' whatever that means.

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.