Rebecca Traister Quotes

The Republican Party is extremely pro-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?

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.

I'll never forget when I was running, when I was knocking on doors for my first office as I served as a Cleveland city councilwoman and to have older men say to me, 'Can you do this and be a wife and a mother?' Excuse me? Women make the world go round. We multitask... But to have that kind of condescending question asked of me in modern times.

I'm all for Hillary Clinton. I want her to avoid the barbs of women who hate women who work. But I'm known as a Republican in Washington. I'm probably the last person she'd call.

Hillary Clinton famously embraced the Trump-originated label 'nasty woman' as yet another way to show just how bad Donald Trump was to women.

In 2008, I started the election season as a critic of Hillary Clinton, a fan of Barack Obama, and a supporter of John Edwards. But by the end of Clinton's historic drive toward nomination, the gendered rhetoric used against her - as well as the way so many men in my own party diminished the value of electing a female president - had radicalized me.

I am someone who really would like to see more women in government, but Palin makes me cringe every time I hear about her.

I know as much as anyone how much her most fervent supporters want Hillary Clinton to run for president.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

After Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, we were told, 'She's the first female speaker of the House, so whether we like it or not, we've got to handle this with kid gloves. Don't go after Speaker Pelosi. You can go after other people, but you'll be branded as mean and evil if you go after the first female Speaker of the House.'

Are Republican women politicians more 'feminine' than Democratic women politicians?

Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have 'the responsibility gene.' No one has that gene more markedly than his wife.

I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.

Well, I think women across Australia, particularly, are a bit fed up with this constant attack and belittling of women in politics, and particularly the role of a female as a prime minister.

The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself.

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.

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!

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

In 2008, I was one of the young feminist whippersnappers who voted for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries - or as many of my older counterparts called me at the time, a traitor.

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

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.

Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.