Dido Harding Quotes

She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

I think a lot of women are underestimated.

I regret the trifling narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

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

Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

As a woman, I have tried to take advantage of the extra access I have in the Muslim world: with Muslim women, for example. Many people underestimate women in that part of the world because, typically, they don't work.

I grew up in a home where I was literally told from a young age, 'No daughter of mine will ever wash a man's socks,' and I am pleased to say I never have. It was made clear that whatever I wanted to do I should aspire to, regardless of my gender.

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.

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

All religions have always hated females.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Very few women are creative. I would not send a daughter of mine to study physics.

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.

It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.

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

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. We reproach the sex every day with folly and impertinence; while I am confident, had they the advantages of education equal to us, they would be guilty of less than ourselves.

I have often thought there has not been sufficient pains taken in finding out proper employment and diversions for the fair ones. Their amusements seem contrived for them rather as they are women than as they are reasonable creatures; and are more adapted to the sex than to the species.