Germaine de Staël Quotes

I think there are fundamental power imbalances between the sexes that play themselves out in society. And I think science is just not immune to that - which actually isn't a very controversial stance if you think about it.

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.

I think a lot of women are underestimated.

The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women.

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.

If you are a man, you have to be like Joe McCarthy to be called “ruthless”. For a woman, all you have to do is put somebody on hold.

The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

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.

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

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?

Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all.

A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to the domestic cliche of the woman.

You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.

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.

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

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.

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

Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.

Yes, there are obstacles as a woman; there is no doubt about it.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

I have not left any calamity more hurtful to man than woman.

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

What women by nature cannot do, it is quite superfluous to forbid them from doing. What they can do, but not so well as the men who are their competitors, competition suffices to exclude them from; since nobody asks for protective duties and bounties in favor of women; it is only asked that the present bounties and protective duties in favor of men should be recalled.