Vandana Shiva Quotes

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.

There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed by the ruling few against the subject many in aristocracies; by the rich against the poor in democracies; by the learned professions against the people in all countries.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

Women being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the walls.

Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it.

We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

Men often still expect women to be under their thumb.

I don't know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it's more difficult for women, particularly in a Medieval setting. They have the additional problem that they're a woman and people don't want them in a position of power in an essentially patriarchal society.

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

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?

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created in the human mind.

All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill.

Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.

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

One of the major differences between gender discrimination and Racial or Religious Discrimination is that the with the latter the perpetrators fundamentally recognized that it was based on power offered moral challenges. However, men—the perpetrators of discrimination against women have mostly not even considered the moral aspect of it and perceived it as natural.

It's Russia. It's a patriarchal society. That's a fact you have to get used to. We have sexism. And it's widespread.

It is frustrating that religion in general includes components that treat women as a support system for a man rather than a leader or equal player in the relationship.

No matter how much we deny it, the fact remains that we have a male-dominated society as well as industry.

Society is patriarchal, so film industry by definition is certainly patriarchal. The male gaze dominated.

The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.

Patriarchy has no gender.