Janet Fitch Quotes

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

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

I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting.

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?

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

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

Control of females is mandatory for a successful, civilized, humane and compassionate society

It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'

We're really taught to be followers from a very young age - men lead and women follow.

Women are allowed to exist in this very narrow lane, but as soon as you step out of that lane, people want to stone you.

I think I've learned quite a bit about the battle of the sexes or, at least, how to keep the status quo a little bit more.

The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.

Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliché, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.

Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.

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.

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

There is a sense that women are more anchored than men in our society.

I was always watching the boys and how they interacted. It comes with being a feminist, just somebody who thinks a lot about gender and how it plays out in society.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.

For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.