Lord Byron Quotes

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

I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried.

Women have a predestination to suffering.

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

The veil is the mask of Egyptian women in a power struggle against the dictatorship of men…. The veil gives women more power in a man’s world.

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

… collectivist, crude communism … views woman as the prey and the handmaiden of communal lust.

Women’s power will be better tolerated when it’s wielded in service of patriarchal interests.

Through the ages, from the beginning of time, I'm certain man has covered woman's face with masks. They are, however, his masks, not hers.

I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.

I'm sure a few marriages broke up because of feminism; it doesn't make feminism a cult.

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

Woman is also the element of conflict.

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.