Beyonce Knowles Quotes

Women have to work much harder to make it in this world. It really pisses me off that women don't get the same opportunities as men do, or money for that matter. Because lets face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define our values and to define what's sexy and what's feminine and that's bullshit. At the end of the day, it's not about equal rights, it's about how we think. We have to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves.

I should have known you'd side with them. It's some sort of of male bonding thing to think women aren't capable of running their own lives." He nuzzled the top of her head with his chin. "It's ego and sheer desperation. We have to keep you thinking we're the superior species." "News flash, Jack - no women on the face of earth believes that anymore." He trailed kisses down her cheek. "But men don't know women know that. We still live in our fantasy world, so don't muck it up for us.

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.

I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.

It's such a male-dominated industry. You can be a feminist, it's just difficult because it sometimes comes back at you.

For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

Society has always been male; political power has always been in the hands of men.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

It is a fight between those who are convinced that women are not qualified to be judges – you’ll hear a hundred justifications for this – and the few that are enlightened, convinced that women can be judges. But they are powerless.

There will never be any really great women writers in the theatre, because women do not know as much as men.

Misogyny should be understood as the ‘law enforcement’ branch of a patriarchal order, which has the overall function of policing and enforcing its governing ideology. Sexism wears a lab coat, misogyny goes on witch hunts.... Sexism is bookish; misogyny is combative. Sexism has a theory; misogyny wields a cudgel.

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

As income inequality increases, the social and political sway of those at the very, very top grows, too. They are nearly all men, and men whose lived experience tells them that women, for whatever reason, just don't have what it takes.

So often, women are there just to be looked at and be objectified for the titillation of the male audience.

I've been constantly under male gaze. In our movies, women are constantly objectified.