Beto O'Rourke Quotes

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

Some of us do talk about women like objects, which dehumanizes them.

Most men somewhere in their psyche are still dragging women around by their hair. It's terrible. I have two daughters, but even before my kids were born I always thought that it was terrible.

Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists, and that’s all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws and their codes.

Among the progress of the human mind that is most important for human happiness, we must count the entire destruction of the prejudices that have established inequality between the sexes, fatal even to the sex it favors….This inequality has no other source but the abuse of power, and men have tried in vain to excuse it by sophisms.

I don’t have any respect to men who send women out to do their fighting for them.

I am saddened by the prevalence of powerful men disrespecting and objectifying women - and getting away with it for years.

There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.

I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

It is rather ironic that society denies women certain rights under the pretext that they are emotional beings, and may become irrational when under pressure, while resorting to the emotions argument as an excuse for men's behaviour in honour crimes.

The exclusion of women from all public offices is a relic of days more barbarous than ours.

A woman is but an animal, and an animal not of the highest order.

I want men to stop calling me a queen and treating me like an imbecile.

The oppression of women is based on custom and tradition—not religion.

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

The darkest page in history is the persecutions of woman.

… male religious leaders have had -- and still have -- an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter.

Man's constant need to disparage woman, to humble her, to deny her equal rights, and to belittle her achievements — all are expressions of his innate envy and fear.

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

Men: What gives you sovereign empire to oppress my sex? Your strength? Your talents? Observe the Creator in his wisdom; survey in all her grandeur that nature with whom you seem to want to be in harmony, and give me, if you dare, an example of this tyrannical empire.

Violence against women is fundamentally about power.