Nina Turner Quotes

The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life.... The paramount destiny and mission of women are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist to keep women 'in their place.' To make sure that we're acting 'appropriately,' whatever that means.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

When I hear the words 'Women should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen,' I think, 'What. A. Dream.' There are no negative connotations to it.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home; that a woman should not aspire to achieve more than her male counterparts and, particularly, not more than her husband.

I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Women belong in the bedroom and the kitchen, in that order.

In our village women are left to clean the house and milk the cattle so when I first entered the ring, I had to hear the criticism of people.

Women are the most denigrated social group in the Soviet Union. The idea of women's emancipation is only a slogan in - but also, I should say, in many places outside - the Soviet Union. But especially in the militaristic Soviet society, people only thought of life in terms of struggle and the workers' toil.

We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

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.

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.

Women are so powerful they're scary, and the incentive to squash this has been going on for so long that some of us actually believe we're subordinate.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.