Joey Soloway Quotes

I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist.

Knowing the horror that most women have of anything approaching irreverence, the Bible has been called out to play the part of a scarecrow on the rich fields of men’s monopolies…Men have had the management of all things human for six thousand years…Has the result been so eminently successful that we need dread a little change?

The emancipation of women will only be possible if the traditional world of men also changes.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for changes still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior: she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

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.

It was not seen that woman’s place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.

We have inherited a social system based on male domination of politics and economics. We call for the replacement of the cultural ethics of domination and control, with more cooperative ways of interacting which respect differences of opinion and gender.

All theories of chivalry and generosity and vicarious representation fall, before the fact that woman has been grossly wronged by man. That being the case, the only modest and honest thing for man to do is to say, "Henceforward have a voice in making your own laws." Till this is done, she has no sure safeguard, since otherwise the same men who made the old barbarous laws may at any time restore them.

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.

You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway. You can’t stop us, neither

The women’s movement is at heart revolutionary for it aims at a fundamental reorganization of all forms of human living together, a reorganization that perhaps Social Democracy does not even dream of.

The position of women in SNCC is prone!

Sexist attitudes—in the United States as well as in India—make it harder for female scholars … to write freely, provocatively, and creatively about subjects that touch the raw nerves of cultural pride, historical memory, and group identity … particularly galling to patriarchal conservatives in India, focusing as it does on feminist undercurrents within Hinduism that undermine the authority of elite, upper-caste, male, and orthodox sections of Hindu society.

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.

Sexism is real.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

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

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

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.