Janet Mock Quotes

Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over, and accept defeat? I hope not.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

As women, we need to stand together. We are judged and objectified often enough by men.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression - but women? I've been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I'm blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright.

I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.

Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy.

There's nothing wrong with looking at a woman's kneecaps.

The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.

I’m furious about the Women’s Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That’s true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

We know in our society, women are valued for their sexual desirability and not necessarily for what they have to say.

I think it is childish for men to joke about women's clothes, to make fun of our hats, to complain over the cost of a good fur coat.

I had somebody say to me once, 'You can't make the kind of music you're making and call yourself a feminist.' The door was slammed on them swiftly after that.

To me, it's disheartening when you have someone take away everything you've done as a woman because of a man.

I believe that it's condescending to think that women and their claims can't stand up to interrogation and can't handle skepticism.

I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.

I've done shows before where it's supposed to be about the women, and then it quickly turns out it isn't.

Certainly anyone who complains of sexism is marked down as humourless.

I can tell you what women love, and that's when people man-splain things to us about what women want and need.

I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out.

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.