Faith Fairfield Quotes

It is better to be a male for one day than a female for ten

Both the Army and the Navy are closed to our sex. Nor, again, are we allowed to be members of the Stock Exchange. Thus we cannot use either the pressure of force or the pressure of money. We cannot preach sermons or negotiate treaties. Then again, although it is true that we can write articles or send letters to the press, the control of the press … is entirely in the hands of your sex …

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.

There will never be any really great women writers in the theatre, because women do not know as much as men.

Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

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

a nation would not profit under a woman as its leader

I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic. And emotional.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

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.

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.'

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

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

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.

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

I don't think women are dumb.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

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

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

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.