Gioconda Belli Quotes

You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

Women's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

A woman's desire is either terrifying, or it's ignored.

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

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.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.

All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.

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

Born of woman, nourished by woman, wedded to woman, why do they revile woman? …. Why revile her that gives birth to kings amongst men

All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill.

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

Control of females is mandatory for a successful, civilized, humane and compassionate society

… collectivist, crude communism … views woman as the prey and the handmaiden of communal lust.

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

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

If you're not a victim, and you don't need help, then you're definitely seen as a threat as a woman.

Sexism is bad enough when it's men demeaning women. When women do it to other women, it's even more deflating.

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