Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Quotes

Studies show that women are more likely than men to die in natural disasters. Women's voices must be heard.

If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

I do not have the answers and as a woman I do not intend to play my own thoughts over the truth. I can clearly state the problems and tell you that I suffer from them.

A complex web of cultural, social, economic and political factors, some ambiguous in nature, keeps Arab women in thrall.

Women are routinely demeaned, dismissed, discouraged and assaulted. Too many women's careers are stymied or ended because of harassment and abuse. In politics, where I have worked much of my adult life, this behavior is rampant.

Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion.

There are many, many different kinds of intersectional exclusions - not just black women but other women of color. Not just people of color, but people with disabilities. Immigrants. LGBTQ people. Indigenous people.

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

It is bad enough to be white and poor; it is worse still to be black, or brown, and female, and young, and poor. Simply said, race makes class hurt more.

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.

I keep thinking about how terrifyingly vulnerable women are in so many countries.

Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

What I hope to do is create a play that investigates the ongoing violence toward women and children in the world, and searches for some kind of answer to the question, 'What Can We Do?'

Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression.

I was traumatised in the medieval Afghan society at Sarana village by the local boys of Omar's Taliban who forced my in-laws to subjugate me for trying to be different. There can be Omars in other religions, too, who oppress women.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

Men always suffer when women are ignorant. They suffer more than women, not only because women are stronger than men and more resistant, but because men are peculiarly vulnerable to the damage ignorant women can do at the periods of their life when they most need intelligent and wise care: in infancy, in adolescence, in times of illness and mental and emotional crisis, and in old age.

Arab women are sacrificed on the alters of God and Money from the moment of birth to the hour of death.