Thomas Hardy Quotes

There's always been something deeply disturbing about the Abbott government's attitude to women.

You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.

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

Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.

Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.

We have all the mistakes of one-sex legislation.

The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women.

What women by nature cannot do, it is quite superfluous to forbid them from doing. What they can do, but not so well as the men who are their competitors, competition suffices to exclude them from; since nobody asks for protective duties and bounties in favor of women; it is only asked that the present bounties and protective duties in favor of men should be recalled.

How come women are treated differently from men all the time? Not only handicapped people, but women - and handicapped women, forget it!

Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.

If anyone says they haven't experienced sexism then I don't know what life they've lived. Males and females have, for different reasons, and I don't think it's a media thing.

In some instances, a gender imbalance is indeed a manifestation of sexism. In others, it is not.

The fact is, there is not now, nor has there ever been in the whole of history, a single country in the world where women have equality with men.

It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.

I don't think 50-50 relationships exist. Men have an incredibly variety of options. It's much harder for a woman to do both things. I think traditional relationships work best.

I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

I think reviewers are sexist... This isn't to sound bitter, but I think you're more likely to get a critical kicking if you're a woman. I just think that's a fact. I really think less value is put in general on women's voices, across the board.

There are less opportunities for women.

The Screen Actors Guild numbers are frightening: Something like 90 percent of the roles are for men, 5 percent are for livestock and 5 percent are for women.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

There's a lot of head-shaking and forehead-slapping when you start to realize just how deep-seated misogyny can be, how systemic and entrenched certain modes of thinking are that are still very much alive.

Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

I believe that sexism in tech is a real problem.