Anna Julia Cooper Quotes

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

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.

Throughout history, women have often been treated as second-class citizens and their voices silenced.

Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day - respect for the elect few among whom they expect to consort.

... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.

I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .

WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.