Lynsey Addario Quotes

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

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

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

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race - women. They are all oppressors of women.

Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.

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

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

The only power that females have is given to them by males. The only thing which females do with that power is use it against males.

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.

Women’s power will be better tolerated when it’s wielded in service of patriarchal interests.

Women in the post-Fifties world were appendages. They existed to serve men. Their lives and concerns didn't matter, except insofar as they impinged on Important Male Things.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.

I am interested in writing how women really feel, how they really think, and how they respond to men. I don't want men reading my books because they might find out too much.

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

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

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

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.