Ann Richards Quotes

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

It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Women are unfit for parliament and parliament is unfit for them.

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.

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 battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

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.

A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

Women have not had their rights come easily.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

The legal profession has been built by men for men in a man’s world. Women find it distinctly uncomfortable.

Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.

Control of females is mandatory for a successful, civilized, humane and compassionate society

We shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, the majority of whom are men, making decisions for women.

The progress of man has never been impeded by preconceived ideas regarding his abilities, his proper interests, and his appropriate activities. Woman has always been so hampered.

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 …

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

Misogyny should be understood as the ‘law enforcement’ branch of a patriarchal order, which has the overall function of policing and enforcing its governing ideology. Sexism wears a lab coat, misogyny goes on witch hunts.... Sexism is bookish; misogyny is combative. Sexism has a theory; misogyny wields a cudgel.

If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.

No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.

The thing that I would say you get the most hate about on social media, in my experience, is if you tweet anything about women's rights or feminism. It blows my mind. But it's the thought of not being a feminist that actually blows my mind.