Orhan Pamuk Quotes

I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.

There were some films I refused because the feminist aspect was a bit wonky.

Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.

I've been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career.

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.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.

Men regarded women as a servant class in the community, and that women were going to remain in the servant class until they lifted themselves out of it.

Woman does not belong to herself.... Man has made her a perpetual minor.

What difference does it make whether the women rule or the rulers are ruled by women? The result is the same.

Selling out Saudi women is an old-established tradition.

The feminist movement is not about success for women. It is about treating women as victims and about telling women that you can't succeed because society is unfair to you, and I think that's a very unfortunate idea to put in the minds of young women because I believe women can do whatever they want.

Partly because women in the U.S. are better represented in the hierarchies, the culture wars over gender there have been particularly fierce.

I don't like that word: feminist.

Some people would say having a feminist perspective is political, but I don't think it is. I think it's just having a female perspective.

My parents realized the dangers of raising a daughter in a social, political, and legal climate that was growing increasingly oppressive toward women and girls. Although they fled to London when I was just three weeks old, the challenges facing women's rights in Iran became ingrained in my social consciousness.

As a woman and as a feminist, I am very well aware of how women have been oppressed and segregated for a thousand of years and I bristle at the fact in 21 century Australia women are still being kept out of public life and I'm sorry, when you wear a burqa you cannot attribute to society as much as you can without it.

I feel sad that we have allowed these knee-jerk feminists who want to act like it's a struggle against men...but again that's the least politically developed strand of feminism.

Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.

I hate feminism. It is poison.

Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.

Another writer asserts that the tyranny of man over woman has its roots, after all, in his nobler feelings; his love, his chivalry, and his desire to protect woman in the barbarous periods of pillage, lust, and war. But wherever the roots may be traced, the results at this hour are equally disastrous to woman. Her best interests and happiness do not seem to have been consulted in the arrangements made for her protection. She has been bought and sold, caressed and crucified at the will and pleasure of her master.

The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it restrains them, confines them, grooms them for docility. A mind can be cramped just as a body may be, and a Muslim veil blinkers both your vision and your destiny. It is the mark of a kind of apartheid, not the domination of a race but of a sex.

There are so many problems with feminism, as women spend a lot of time telling other women what to do, and that distracts from the actual problem.

I felt that 'The Woman' was a feminist movie at heart.