Gender Issues Quotes

Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.

I think feminism is the worst thing that ever happened to women. Our job used to be no job. We had it so good!

Time to heal our women, be real to our women. And if we don't, then we'll have a race of babies, that hate the ladies that make the babies.

I hate feminism. It is poison.

I think it's really difficult for women to be involved with sportsmen that travel, or men to be involved with men or women, whoever it may be.

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.

I hear from a lot of young women, you know, I don't want to call myself a feminist because I don't want to get in an argument with someone. And it's just not cool; like it's not a cool thing to be associated with.

The #MeToo movement is a very important movement. It's messy. And it's complicated. And there are places where it's going to overreach.

I'm a woman, and I see women get put through an awful lot of grief and be subjected to the kind of criticism, remarks, and suggestions that no woman should ever have to tolerate. And I think we should be helping each other and supporting each other.

The Special Forces is an aggressive and violent organisation. I wouldn't want to see a woman going through that and getting shot at.

I think the Republicans are trying to learn from their mistakes about attacks on women because the women's vote will backfire.

Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.

This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement aims to achieve.

The thing that most distresses me is whenever I see things over sexualized, I worry about young girls. Some of the fall out of the feminist movement is that it made younger and younger girls more sexually available. It's part of the philosophy, be your own person and be free. But, girls are so over sexualized in this culture.

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

I think objectifying women is not wrong if only her beauty is captured in an aesthetic manner.

I went from being just a kid to all of a sudden not being able to walk a block without a man waggling his tongue through his fingers, which is disgusting. I mean, I was 13 and suddenly I'm trying to see myself through the eyes of men, trying to figure out why I'm getting this reaction from them versus just being able to walk through the world whole.

I think it's important for us to recognize that although historically black communities have been very progressive with respect to issues of race and with respect to struggles for racial equality, that does not necessarily translate into progressive positions on gender issues, progressive positions on issues of sexuality and in the latter 1990s we have to recognize the intersectionality, the interconnectedness of all of these institutions and attitudes.

I'm not interested in worrying in if I make people uncomfortable. I'm interested in stopping women and children dying - that's what I'm interested in.

I don't need the new fan; I need the fan that has anxiety - parents are getting divorced, social problems, gender problems - I need them to come to the ultimate show, and they're going to get that at Knotfest.

Mary Keitany from Kenya won the women's race at the New York City Marathon. You can tell she was fast because guys on the street didn't even have time to finish their catcalls.

I've been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career.