Patti Smith Quotes

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

Some of us do talk about women like objects, which dehumanizes them.

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

Thomas Jefferson once said, "Women shouldn't wrinkle their pretty little foreheads with politics." Now does that mean he was a sexist, or was he just expressing what most males, and maybe most females, felt at that time? Or are both true?

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

I'm used to seeing women being degraded, slut shamed, harassed for what they look like. Even the most powerful women in the world are measured by their appearance and constantly ridiculed for it.

Our culture hasn't stopped objectifying women. We - men and women both - are just getting better at pretending it's not happening.

I have always stayed away from works that objectify women or is misogynistic or politically incorrect.

Ladies. Large masses of girls are often prone to this salutation. I hate being mollified with this unsolicited "ladies" business. I know we're all women. I am conscious of my breasts. Do I have to be conscious of yours as well? Do men do this? Do they go, "Men: Meet for ribs in the shed after the game. Keg beer, raw eggs, and death metal only." I would imagine not.

I know labs where women refuse to make a coffee for others because they don't want to be seen doing seemingly female things. I think this is stupid. Why not make a coffee, bring a cake? I do it.

People aren't comfortable thinking of women as people. Like we're not people, we're women, and that means something completely different, especially when you have power.

I wouldn't call girls a hobby. It's a pastime.

Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.

You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself.

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

I have a problem with objectifying women, but I don't have a problem playing a guy who objectifies women.

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of?