Alva Myrdal Quotes

Modern-era feminists believe that there is no inherent difference in men and women, that it's all the way they're raised.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.

It would need more than the 19th Amendment to convince me that there are no differences between men and women, or that legislation cannot take those differences into account.

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong overcome the superstitions that still engulf women.

It seems to me that the fact that I am a woman is a bigger issue than the fact that I'm from the East. For me it isn't really important. I've only ever known myself as a woman.

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . .

We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

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 adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

I'm not involved with the female world.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

I believe women think differently.

I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

I've never been anti-women.

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

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.

Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

As a result of the feminist revolution, 'feminine' becomes an abusive epithet.