Ellen Page Quotes

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about 'shrieking sisterhoods' and 'disappointed spinsters' and rubbish of that sort.

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 a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

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

I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.

You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!

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.

Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day - respect for the elect few among whom they expect to consort.

... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.

I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem.

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

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

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

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

Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.

I'm not involved with the female world.

Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on 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.

I've never been anti-women.

I always laugh when people call me a misogynist. I... love women! Everything I do is to impress women. And if I hated women, why would half my fans be women?

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

I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere.

Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.