Kate Millett Quotes

Women are so powerful they're scary, and the incentive to squash this has been going on for so long that some of us actually believe we're subordinate.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

All religions have always hated females.

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

Forever behind a woman is the mediaeval English common law which places upon her the stigma of inferiority and bondage

Control of females is mandatory for a successful, civilized, humane and compassionate society

Patriarchy doesn't just make men out to be ogres. Women buy into the patriarchy as well, and women make those comments as well, like, 'Boys will be boys.' Women have to undo that stuff, too.

Patriarchy is so ingrained in our psyche, that most us propagate it in small ways even without realizing.

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

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

I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.

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

With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed.

Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.

Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

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 failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.