Vladimir Lenin Quotes

The ability of women is not known because they are relegated to the business of procreation, child-rearing, and breast feeding.

Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable.

There are not many roles where women are really active.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

It was seldom suggested that women’s drudgery could be decreased in the meantime by the simple expedient of sharing it with men.

Under capitalism the female half of the human race is doubly oppressed … firstly because the law does not give them equality with men; and secondly—and this is the main thing—they remain in ‘household bondage’; they continue to be ‘household slaves’, for they are overburdened with the drudgery if the most squalid, backbreaking and stultifying toil in the kitchen in the family household.

I will not accept anybody’s claim that they are striving for equal rights for women when they refuse to agree to a radical redistribution of work—both gainful employment and unpaid work [in the home].

The modern individual family is based on the open or disguised domestic enslavement of the woman.

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free.

I didn't think I was a humorless shrew in 'Knocked Up.' I think the women are just as funny as the men are in that movie.

Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.

I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery.

I gravitate toward women.

It is not a woman I want - it is all women.

The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clergyman; for them also, the woman judge might often surpass the man in penetration and understanding.

My gender has never been an issue or a limitation. I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by strong women growing up, and with them as my role models, I was never limited by the traditional roles women find themselves in.

History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.