Reed Morano Quotes

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.

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.

We have to overcome the practice of male domination - even though it's changing, and changing in Liberia quite drastically.

We are living in a Millennial culture that is attacking "patriarchy." The culture in America as zeroed in, and it's been going on and it's been building since the modern era of the feminazis began, since the late sixties and early seventies.

I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.

Society was built on male power, and women's power was... ignored is the best word to describe it I suppose, we have been running society on one power, half a power really. And that's so terrible. The world needs women's power too.

I feel like we need to understand feminism more as a tool to mediate, counteract, to ultimately defeat patriarchy and restore balance to our government, our culture and our ways of thinking and structuring the world. I think we've had a very "masculine" sensibility for a long time, and I think we need to go back to the roots of social imbalance. I think we have to try to right that first, and from there and all these more pressing issues will follow.

We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.

As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

I've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male ideas to female facts.

The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women.

It's Russia. It's a patriarchal society. That's a fact you have to get used to. We have sexism. And it's widespread.

How come women are treated differently from men all the time? Not only handicapped people, but women - and handicapped women, forget it!

For thirty years, I've been hearing that it's getting better for women. And until I see statistical proof over enough years that that's true, I won't believe it.

As female athletes all over the world have discovered the hard way, changing cultures and mindsets takes action.

My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here for forty-three years, it's, like, whoa, there is just so much more to do, other than become myself. I'm still talking about it. I still drop the P-word, "patriarchy," on unsuspecting people in everyday conversations.

Many feminists in the academy and in the major women's groups are knocking down open doors. It's 2016, not 1950. But you wouldn't know that if you looked through a typical women's studies textbook or website.

In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.

The struggles women face today are simultaneously very, very old and very new.

Right now the topic of female empowerment is at the forefront of conversation and it's important we take advantage of the trend while there is added pressure to adjust long-standing beliefs, prejudices, and cultural discrimination.

Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.

For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.