Richard Flanagan Quotes

It's Russia. It's a patriarchal society. That's a fact you have to get used to. We have sexism. And it's widespread.

In some instances, a gender imbalance is indeed a manifestation of sexism. In others, it is not.

I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

There's a lot of head-shaking and forehead-slapping when you start to realize just how deep-seated misogyny can be, how systemic and entrenched certain modes of thinking are that are still very much alive.

You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.

Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.

I don't like boys. They're kind of annoying.

If anyone says they haven't experienced sexism then I don't know what life they've lived. Males and females have, for different reasons, and I don't think it's a media thing.

Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all.

I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

There are less opportunities for women.

Being a woman is really crap.

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.

I've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.

The brewing industry is a very, very male dominated industry. It's a male bastion.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

I don't think the very fact that I'm a woman makes me suddenly more vulnerable or more inherently used and abused.

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.

I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'

We have all the mistakes of one-sex legislation.

The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women.

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