Ernestine Rose Quotes

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

It is a fight between those who are convinced that women are not qualified to be judges – you’ll hear a hundred justifications for this – and the few that are enlightened, convinced that women can be judges. But they are powerless.

I used to be very interested in the history of women's rights in this country and in other countries. I tried to learn as much as I could about it, and more than anything, I would be called gay. It was phenomenal. But if a boy has something to say, he is appreciated; he's even popular. If a girl says something, it's instantly a threat.

Sexism is alive and well in politics, as it is in all industries.

I have had enough of the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin... I call upon the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower who will wilt at any moment.

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.

There are some men who, in a spirit of arrogance, think they are superior to women. They do not seem to realize that they would not exist but for the mother who gave them birth. When they assert their superiority they demean her.

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

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.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

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

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.

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 all about empowering women. And by lining them up against the wall and weighing them, surely you are making them feel more like meat than ever - even if it's little meat, if you know what I mean.

Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

I'm not involved with the female world.

I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

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.