Nia Sharma Quotes

The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.

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.

I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.

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.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.

There are not many roles where women are really active.

There are many Saudi women doctors, and there are many wealthy and powerful and well-educated Saudi women who circumvent the restrictions put upon them, quietly or otherwise.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo.

So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

Feminism in some ways has become quite dormant.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist, but I don't like girls pretending to be stupid because it's easier.