Nancy Pelosi Quotes

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

The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

Women must become more conscious of themselves as women and of their ability to function as a group. At the same time they must try to wipe from men’s consciousness the need to consider them as a group or as women in their everyday activities, especially as workers in industry or the professions.

There's no prize for being the best woman.

... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

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

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

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

I don't think women are dumb.

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

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

We are still living with a double standard. I know it. Every woman I know knows it, whether you're in the media as a woman, or you're in the professions or business or politics.

Women are unfit for parliament and parliament is unfit for them.

Let every woman ask herself, Why am I the slave of Man? Why is my brain said not to be equal of his brain? Why is my work not paid equally with his? Why must my body be controlled by my husband, giving me in exchange what he deems fit?

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

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

Women must try to do things as men have tried.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male ideas to female facts.