Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes

The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.

It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than (one) film.

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.

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

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

… it is not sufficient to change laws, institutions and customs. It is essential that women acquire ‘a new skin’. This can occur only through a collective effort while women suffer and loathe the oppression of men; it does not follow that her ovaries condemn her to be on her knees for eternity.

There's this whole feeling that women should be small and quiet and polite, and I don't think that's really gotten us anywhere.

Women are allowed to exist in this very narrow lane, but as soon as you step out of that lane, people want to stone you.

If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.

The nature of women's oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to significant wealth, but that wealth does not signify power; women are to be found everywhere, but own or control no appreciable territory; women live with those who oppress them, sleep with them, have their children - we are tangled, hopelessly it seems, in the gut of the machinery and way of life which is ruinous to us.

I think what's been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete sexuality and life-force. This manifests itself in different cultural variances, but that's really what's going on everywhere.

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

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

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.

The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.

No one knows what women want!

So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

All religions have always hated females.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

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

My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.

Every single line, every single thing has to be fought over. There's kind of like an intrinsic doubt from absolutely everyone in my crew, my producer, everyone. It's not just the film industry - it's a worldwide thing. It's the culture of the world to doubt women.

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.

Republicans try to wrestle women into Chastity belts.