Naomi Weisstein Quotes

Men should understand that women are creatures of nature, and that they are to be respected as nature, and that they are interchangeable and complex like nature.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.

I grew up in a home where I was literally told from a young age, 'No daughter of mine will ever wash a man's socks,' and I am pleased to say I never have. It was made clear that whatever I wanted to do I should aspire to, regardless of my gender.

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

I've heard people say that 'The Blair Witch Project' is a feminist movie because there's a woman in charge and I've heard it called a completely anti-feminist movie because this woman screws everything up. Who cares really? It's just a movie.

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.

And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female.

I've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.

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

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.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

I do see the world as being different for girls - especially now, having daughters.

Of course the female experience is different from those of our male peers - just like every woman's story is different from their fellow females.

All writers are battling and fighting as to how a woman should be characterised.

My parents never told me, 'You're supposed to wear pink,' or 'You're meant to do this because you're a girl.'

People hold my father in very high esteem, but what was amazing was that nobody looked at me as a woman; I was never made aware of the fact that I am a woman.

Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.

Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

What does it mean, being a woman?

'Little Women' has interesting gender connotations. There are generations of women who love the book. But there are a lot of men who think it's sentimental, gooey stuff.