Muhammad Quotes

I regret the trifling narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.

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

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.

Sometimes when I talk, I sound like a feminist because I get really angry when I hear certain things. For instance, a lot of families don't really educate their girls much while they educate their sons to the full extent. I think that's not fair.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didn't get you very far, because there weren't too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldn't be both.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

There are certain things women are better at than men.

Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

I've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.

I think a lot of women are underestimated.

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

Men are mostly raised by women. Most men have not seen an authoritative woman since they were 8. They associate women in authority with childhood.

The ability of women is not known because they are relegated to the business of procreation, child-rearing, and breast feeding.

The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations.... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed.

The relative positions assumed by men and women were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

The male shall have the equal of the portion of two females.

All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill.