Nell Scovell Quotes

I hate the victimization of women, always.

Women are born, living their lives, and dying without the justice which they have been waiting for since the time of the caveman.

The discrimination of women and girls goes to the core of any and all analyses of the world's economic, political, and environmental problems.

Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women

Gender inequality is not one problem, it's a collection of problems.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

The world is still sexist.

Women have no government.

The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women.

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

Sexism is real.

It was a feeling of loyalty to our own sex and an enthusiasm to have every degradation that was put upon our sex removed.

I think there are fundamental power imbalances between the sexes that play themselves out in society. And I think science is just not immune to that - which actually isn't a very controversial stance if you think about it.

The world remains a very hostile place for women in many corners of the globe. As such, we should all strive to battle such injustices wherever these might occur.

If someone is being misogynistic, you have to name it. It's not convenient to talk about discrimination, but if you don't do it, you allow it to exist. So you have to name it.

The fact is, there is not now, nor has there ever been in the whole of history, a single country in the world where women have equality with men.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.