Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes

The oppression of women is based on custom and tradition—not religion.

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

Being a woman is really crap.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Not regarded as the equals of men.

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

[Women’s subjugation to men] is one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.

Everyone has been discriminated against or harassed - sexism is real.

Sexism is real.

I think there are fundamental power imbalances between the sexes that play themselves out in society. And I think science is just not immune to that - which actually isn't a very controversial stance if you think about it.

Women are cursed, and men are the proof.

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

I hate the victimization of women, always.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

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.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

I'm beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it.

I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

It is better to be a male for one day than a female for ten

The darkest page in history is the persecutions of woman.