Kriti Sanon Quotes

It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.

We are still living with a double standard. I know it. Every woman I know knows it, whether you're in the media as a woman, or you're in the professions or business or politics.

... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.

When you speak up about any sense of unfairness or injustice, you're told that you're overreacting, you're too angry, too silly-shut up already. It takes a tremendous amount of fortitude to be able to live in this world as a woman, let alone a woman who wants things to change.

Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

I think a lot of women are underestimated.

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because 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.

I have to break down the barriers as a female. I have to work 30 times harder just for respect.

Women should not fall back on 'sexism' unless they really feel that it's happening.

A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

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

I am often asked why there is discrimination against women in science. And I have given it some thought. With prejudicial attitudes, you can't really do much. You can point out when people discriminate and ask them not to.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

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

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.

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