Italian Proverb Quotes

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.

Women ruled all; and ministers of state Were at the doors of women forced to wait,-- Women, who we oft as sovereigns graced the land, But never governed well at second-hand.

The veil is the mask of Egyptian women in a power struggle against the dictatorship of men…. The veil gives women more power in a man’s world.

Through the ages, from the beginning of time, I'm certain man has covered woman's face with masks. They are, however, his masks, not hers.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Allah has given men control over women.

I don’t have any respect to men who send women out to do their fighting for them.

It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of the vote got away with calling itself the victim... Women are the only 'oppressed' group to share the same parents as the 'oppressor'; to be born into the middle class and upper class as frequently as the 'oppressor'; to own more of the culture's luxury items than the 'oppressor'..

The only power that females have is given to them by males. The only thing which females do with that power is use it against males.

… male religious leaders have had -- and still have -- an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter.

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

Why extremists always focus on women remains a mystery to me. But they do. It doesn’t matter what country they’re in or what religion they claim. They want to control women.

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

Some suggest that, as a woman, I meddle in political affairs and need to be 'put in my place.'

We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.

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

Men still have to be governed by deception.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.