Susie Bright Quotes

I was just nine years old when 'Straw Dogs' came out, so I can't really speak to the women of the time, but I can tell you that the women of 2011 are not put-upon, and they're not victims.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.

There are not many roles where women are really active.

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

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.

There is a sense that women are more anchored than men in our society.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male ideas to female facts.

The veil is the mask of Egyptian women in a power struggle against the dictatorship of men…. The veil gives women more power in a man’s world.

I think feminism is the worst thing that ever happened to women. Our job used to be no job. We had it so good!

Women throughout history have had to defy rigid conventions about what is and is not expected of them.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the same time, men must change their mindset towards women. If they are more respectful towards them, then things will change at the grassroots level. It will happen slowly, but everyone has to move together.

At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.

Why am I not feminist? Maybe because I come from a country where my mother ruled my life. I never felt in any way that I couldn't achieve what I want.

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

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.

We are the women men warned us about.