Jocelyn Bell Burnell Quotes

For 150 years a woman was regarded as some kind of prostitute if she wanted to go into business….Young girls were supposed to have their focus on motherhood and babies.

Women belong in the bedroom and the kitchen, in that order.

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

When I hear the words 'Women should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen,' I think, 'What. A. Dream.' There are no negative connotations to it.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home; that a woman should not aspire to achieve more than her male counterparts and, particularly, not more than her husband.

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

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.

The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life.... The paramount destiny and mission of women are to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator.

Land belongs to the men folk.

The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.

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

The GOP will not be satisfied until women are barefoot, pregnant and back home by 5 o'clock P.M. to cook dinner.

Feminism has changed the way women think, and it has changed the way men think, but the trouble is, it hasn't changed the attitudes of babies at all.

There's a view in Russian society that there are 'male professions' and 'female professions.' The women should be looking after the home and children. It makes me sad. But the only thing you can do is fight it.

You get angry and frustrated wondering, 'Are there enough parts for women?'

I believe women should be feminine.

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.

The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.

Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.

I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.