Lewis D. Eigen Quotes

Misogyny should be understood as the ‘law enforcement’ branch of a patriarchal order, which has the overall function of policing and enforcing its governing ideology. Sexism wears a lab coat, misogyny goes on witch hunts.... Sexism is bookish; misogyny is combative. Sexism has a theory; misogyny wields a cudgel.

Women to govern men, slaves freemen, are much in the same degree; all being total violations and perversions of the laws of nature and nations.

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.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

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

Once again, no one in charge had given any thought to the possibility that a woman would be involved.

Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

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

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

I think a lot of women are underestimated.

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

I feel like women are asked their age more than men.

Not regarded as the equals of men.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior: she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

The relative positions assumed by men and women were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

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.

It is better to be a male for one day than a female for ten

Have you ever seen a man carry a burden when there were a woman's shoulders near enough to shift the burden to?