Gender Inequality Quotes

“What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now.
You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank.
Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.”
Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up.”
― Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism

“That was part of being a girl--you were resigned to whatever feedback you'd get. If you got mad, you were crazy, and if you didn't react, you were a bitch. The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they'd backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if the joke was always on you.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

“I waited to be told what was good about me. [...] All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you- the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

“As a girl, she was a legal prey, especially if she was dressed in a worn black leather jacket and had pierced eyebrows, tattoos, and zero social status.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

“She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.”
― Núria Añó

“People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.”
― Rebecca West

“And a woman by herself is missing a man, while a man by himself is his own master.
Trousers. That's the secret. Trousers and a pair of socks. I never dreamed it was like this. Put on trousers and the world changes. We walk different. We act different. I see these girls and I think: Idiot's Get yourself some trousers!”
― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

“Your indignant behavior over the slightest perceived gender inequality makes it almost certain that inequality is what you masturbate to at night.”
― Kitty Thomas, Big Sky

“Whenever he realizes that a female is more gifted than him, the average man subconsciously consoles himself with the fact that she does not have even a tiny penis.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“People like to think they're open-minded, but if you toss a tired gender stereotype on their path they'll run with it every time.”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next

“To say that we want wages for housework is to expose the fact that housework is already money for capital, that capital has made and makes money out of our cooking, smiling, fucking. At the same time, it shows that we have cooked, smiled, fucked throughout the years not because it was easier for us than for anybody else, but because we did not have any other choice. Our faces have become distorted from so much smiling, our feelings have got lost from so much loving, our oversexualization has left us completely desexualized.”
― Silvia Federici, Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

“She was flabbergasted by the backward thinking of humankind. The damaging double standards that fueled gender disparity infuriated her.”
― Wiss Auguste, The Illusions of Hope

“People don’t believe women who fight back. When a man lashes out, people say he’s lost control of his temper or made a terrible mistake. When a woman does it, she’s a psychopath.”
― Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

“The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“Yet sometimes the world judges females by a different standard and seeks to punish them unjustly.”
― Victoria Thompson, Murder in Murray Hill

“She was a real no-nonsense girl. Just didn’t have time for any shit, you know? I’ve always admired that about her. I was so concerned with whether or not everyone liked me at that age.
And people hate that quality in a young woman, don’t they? They don’t know what to do with a girl who isn’t looking for their approval. They feel like they have to bring her down a peg.”
― Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

“Men live in a dream. They always want to be treated like children. When they're strong, we indulge them in this fantasy simply because they're men.

Women, on the other hand, have reality shoved into their faces. Useless dreams are not luxuries they can entertain for long. No matter how much they may hate the real world, they do not have the luxury of acting like children.”
― Murasaki Yamada, Talk to My Back

“Nepal is confronted with many societal issues, including the caste system, child labor, illiteracy, gender inequality, superstitions, religious disputes, and a slew of other issues.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Why Nepal Fails

“Society believes that every man comes out of the womb with a PhD in 'Fixing Stuff 101”
― Anubha Saxena

“In the world of data, women must be mythical creatures. That's the only explanation for why we're so often left out.”
― Anubha Saxena

“We were all Wives of Bath – from the teachers who terrorized us with their bells and gatings to the overfed boarders and snobby day girls..but no matter how hard any of us struggled...Bath Ladies College was only a fiefdom in the kingdom of men.

— The Wives of Bath”
― Susan Swan

“Sensuality is about disruptive thinking. And disruptive thinking isn’t about picking a side between the masculine and the feminine. It’s about stepping past the arguments and rising above gender issues. This war between genders clearly indicates how far out of touch people are with their sensual side.”
― Lebo Grand

“If you want to learn about patriarchal families, you don't ask the father, you ask the mother; then maybe you will learn something.”
― David Barsamian, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

“Unless she is shedding tears of joy, a woman is not meant to cry.”
― Emmanuel Louis, IMAGINE WOMEN THE REAL POWER: A Man’s Journey to Praising and Defending Women

“…Ancak kalıtımsal aristokrasi, sınıf ya da ırk gibi hiyerarşiler, güçlü veya zengin erkeklerle bağlantılı kadınlara imtiyaz sağladığından, kadınlar kendilerini aslında diğer kadınlarla aynı kaderi paylaşan, erkeklerden ayrı bir grup olarak görmeyerek, genellikle kendilerini ikincil konumda tutan kurumları, entelektüel yapıları desteklediler ki bu da Gramsci'nin hegemonya düşüncesine iyi bir örnektir.”
― Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Gender in History: Global Perspectives

“Children don’t always understand such subtleties. They watch. They observe. They imbibe. They mimic. The byproduct of this is that many young boys have grown up mistakenly believing that they are entitled to a woman’s care and attention just like their fathers were.”
― Prachi Gangwani, Dear Men: Masculinity and Modern Love in #MeToo India

“Very few men in India see women as friends, and because of this, most men in India have what is called the ‘nice guy syndrome’. Again, the roots of it are strengthened in childhood experiences when schools segregate boys and girls and parents tell young boys they can’t play with girls or vice versa. When we pitch young children against each other because of sex and gender it carries on well into their adulthood.”
― Prachi Gangwani, Dear Men: Masculinity and Modern Love in #MeToo India

“Once more I caught a glimpse of the mark on his cheek, where his she stamp would have been if he were a woman. But men didn’t wear stamps— they were just allowed to Be.”
― Avi Silver, Pluralities

“Dreams don't come with a gender tag.”
― Anubha Saxena

“The whip scars on my back weren't real to him. People's pain didn't matter to him unless he was the cause of it. Butler, 1979, p. 125”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred