Jack Monroe Quotes

The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.

I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

If you are chauvinistic mind, you will not be able to take the fact there is a strong, successful girl.

Everyone has been discriminated against or harassed - sexism is real.

To me, it's disheartening when you have someone take away everything you've done as a woman because of a man.

I feel, in our culture, the girl with any sort of power is called 'difficult' or various words that are demeaning just because she has a voice, has confidence, and stands for her rights. It is sad, but it is the truth of our country.

Society has this deeply rooted love of seeing women fail.

Every time I speak out about anything feminist I will be shot down by people calling me fat, calling me stupid. And it's all because I am speaking from a feminist perspective.

As women, we need to stand together. We are judged and objectified often enough by men.

A lot of the hate mail I get is clearly misogynist. I am a proud liberal, feminist woman, and the hate mail I get about those three things is not about me.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

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

It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them.

It is rather ironic that society denies women certain rights under the pretext that they are emotional beings, and may become irrational when under pressure, while resorting to the emotions argument as an excuse for men's behaviour in honour crimes.

When woman reigns the devil governs.

I have not left any calamity more hurtful to man than woman.