Christina Ricci Quotes

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.

Women in the post-Fifties world were appendages. They existed to serve men. Their lives and concerns didn't matter, except insofar as they impinged on Important Male Things.

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.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

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

Woman does not belong to herself.... Man has made her a perpetual minor.

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'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.

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

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

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist to keep women 'in their place.' To make sure that we're acting 'appropriately,' whatever that means.

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

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

Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

Forever behind a woman is the mediaeval English common law which places upon her the stigma of inferiority and bondage