Megan Fox Quotes

Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.

It is obvious that discrimination exists. Women do not have the opportunities that men do. And women that do not conform to the system, who try to break with the accepted patterns, are stigmatized as odd and unfeminine.

When a woman shouts, she isn't usually praised for it. She's condemned as aggressive and coarse.

To me, it's disheartening when you have someone take away everything you've done as a woman because of a man.

I have to break down the barriers as a female. I have to work 30 times harder just for respect.

I feel, in our culture, the girl with any sort of power is called 'difficult' or various words that are demeaning just because she has a voice, has confidence, and stands for her rights. It is sad, but it is the truth of our country.

If women speak their mind, then they are termed as trouble makers or attention seekers.

As women, we need to stand together. We are judged and objectified often enough by men.

Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.

It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.

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.

Very often as a little girl, then as a young woman, I have suffered my lot of discrimination. I was brought up with brothers; I grew up in a boys' world. You have to elbow your way in. When you come with that sentiment of having been in a minority for a long period of time, then you are much more attentive to minorities.

Women are so powerful they're scary, and the incentive to squash this has been going on for so long that some of us actually believe we're subordinate.

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

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.

For more than six thousand years the history of woman has been one of hopeless sadness. She moved only to the clank of chains, and her vain desire for better and higher things could not find expression, for woman was by force of circumstances inarticulate. Detraction of one sex and exaltation of the other became a habit of mind expressed in law, in religion, in literature as well as in the ordinary activities of everyday life.

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

Is it right that your mother, your sister... should be classed with criminals and lunatics... ? Is it right that while the gambler, the drunkard, and even the wife-beater has a vote, earnest, educated and refined women are denied it?... Is it right... that a mother... should be thought unworthy of a vote that is freely given to the blasphemer, the liar, the seducer, and the profligate?

There’s no more despised figure on earth than a woman who seeks power.

I am a feminist. Women are discriminated against in so many ways, and they make up half the population.

It was a feeling of loyalty to our own sex and an enthusiasm to have every degradation that was put upon our sex removed.

I believe that it's condescending to think that women and their claims can't stand up to interrogation and can't handle skepticism.