Stephen Colbert Quotes

We are at war with men, and most women don't even know it.

There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

A vast majority of Republicans are on the record saying that they believe the Violence Against Women Act should be reauthorized. Let me be clear: I believe that Violence Against Women Act must be reauthorized.

I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.

I keep thinking about how terrifyingly vulnerable women are in so many countries.

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

I can hear the roar of women's silence.

The Republicans here in Concord and down in Washington D.C. would have us believe that the War on Women is a phony war. Michele Bachmann and Fox News would have us believe that the whole thing is 'political fiction.'

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em.

Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women. I'm not surprised at all. In some ways, it may be a good thing. They're defending the patriarchy, which is a wounded beast! And wounded beasts are always dangerous.

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Every religion oppresses women. I talk about the Koran because I know this book best. It allows for torture and other mistreatment, especially for women. And I despise the Sharia laws. They cannot be changed. They must be thrown out, abolished.

Real freedom for women is possible only through Communism.

The problem of “honor killings” is not a problem of morality or of ensuring that women maintain their own personal virtue; rather, it is a problem of domination, power and hatred of women who, in these instances, are viewed as nothing more than servants to the family, both physically and symbolically.

For a woman emancipation means corruption.