Sonia Sotomayor Quotes

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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

Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.

I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.

I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.

I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn't.

My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

The transition between life in red-state America and life in the Arab capital was at times overwhelming because of the traditional segregation of men and women in many public and private settings.

We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce this difference is a step back. Notions of gender pointlessly separate men from women, but also mothers from daughters and fathers from sons.

In the U.K., my mother had been the breadwinner. I'd seen my parents side by side. In Saudi Arabia, my mother was basically rendered disabled. She was unable to drive, dependent on my dad for everything. The religious zealotry was so suffocating.

Many of us were raised with the 'be a lady' thing, and all those kind of things that can be used against you and strip you out of opportunity and power.

Why is it when a woman makes a film or a movie stars a female cast it is labeled women-centric because it is not white, male and middle-class men?

One thing is for sure: that women are far more compassionate, empathetic, sensitive, and emotional in comparison to men.

Owing to cultural beliefs, girls have been taught to be small, disappear and not take our full place in society. But that is not what we are meant to be.

... patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all--even as we forge different individual choices within them--just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.

The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.

We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society.