Lauren Mayberry Quotes

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?

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

I used to be very interested in the history of women's rights in this country and in other countries. I tried to learn as much as I could about it, and more than anything, I would be called gay. It was phenomenal. But if a boy has something to say, he is appreciated; he's even popular. If a girl says something, it's instantly a threat.

I would consider myself one of the least misogynistic men in the country - if anything, just the opposite.

I am particularly distressed when people in the public eye who influence our culture perpetuate sexism.

I don't fear being judged as a misogynist.

I think that if you're a writer and a woman, then you have to take humiliation very well.

I think if there's anything 2016 has taught me, it's that we have a real hard time with women in our society; we have a hard time with the feminine.

As female artists, we have to be constantly criticized for the way that we look, the way that we dress, on a whole other level that men don't have to face.

The war against sexism is portrayed increasingly a battle long ago won. To which my response is, 'if only'.

I have been fortunate to be around people that don't believe in misogyny at the workplace or in my family. But of course, it does exist.

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic. And emotional.

Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

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

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men. They are far superior and always have been.

Misogyny should be understood as the ‘law enforcement’ branch of a patriarchal order, which has the overall function of policing and enforcing its governing ideology. Sexism wears a lab coat, misogyny goes on witch hunts.... Sexism is bookish; misogyny is combative. Sexism has a theory; misogyny wields a cudgel.