Ivanka Trump Quotes

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world. Just because we got rid of the father of the nation in Egypt or Tunisia, Mubarak or Ben Ali, and in a number of other countries, does not mean that the father of the family does not still hold sway.

Society was built on male power, and women's power was... ignored is the best word to describe it I suppose, we have been running society on one power, half a power really. And that's so terrible. The world needs women's power too.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.

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.

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.

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.

Well men have been engaged in this tomfoolery long enough and the Good Lord has seen fit to start having women engage in it also.

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation.

Now that Arab women are pouring into the streets by the million, men discover with dismay that they, not women, were the captives of the harem dream.

No. 1, women should be in the bedroom. No. 2, get to the kitchen. No. 3, support the man, support the king.

How can you respect a culture if the woman has to walk several steps behind her man, has to stay in the kitchen and keep her mouth shut?

We have to overcome the practice of male domination - even though it's changing, and changing in Liberia quite drastically.

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. There was this idea with my parents' generation that in order to find equality, a woman would need to behave like a man.

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.

In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.

I consider myself a feminist living in a post-feminist era.

You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress.

I've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.

About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.

As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.