Quotes About Women's Inferiority

#1. Because they dream so strongly in themselves, their superiority and women's inferiority, they project an image that a woman finds very, very difficult to fight against.

Frederick Lenz

#2. The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of women's inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour that merely to recognize it is to risk unravelling the entire fabric of civilization.

Molly Haskell

#3. Every one of the "great" belief systems of the world, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Confucianism, insists on women's inferiority as an article of faith. Individual

Rosalind Miles

#4. If you have a dream, first build a team.

Vinita Kinra

#5. The world hasn't changed. It's full of men who hate women. It's stuffed to the gills with assholes who will mount an attack on a stranger just because she's female and they're small-minded monkey-boys with an inferiority complex.

The world hasn't changed, but I have.

Robin York

#6. Unquestioned beliefs are the real authorities of a culture. Therefore, if an individual can express what is undeniably real to him without invoking any authority beyond his own experience, he is transcending the belief systems of his culture.

Robert Combs

#7. Audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

Ellen Glasgow

#8. There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.

Derek Jacobi

#9. We write out of our humanity by writing through our direct experience. That which is most personal is most general, which becomes both our insight and protection as a writers. This is our authority as women, as human beings.

Terry Tempest Williams

#10. The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed feelings of inferiority.

Jacquetta Hawkes

#11. Men have special needs too: for example, a man generally needs a higher daily intake of calories than a woman. But this has never been though of as a sign of men's inferiority to women; if anything, it is a sign of strength and an entitlement to extra food.

Jonathan Wolff

#12. Pain is interesting. I dislike it immensely but I've never experienced pain and boredom at the same time. Even when I had unending and severe pain in my lower back for several years I was never bored by the pain, though it exhausted me.

Augusten Burroughs

#13. What a man must do is realize that his continued belief in the inferiority of women is going to produce a type of karma that is going to hold him back, and already has.

Frederick Lenz

#14. It is the socially determined norms and traditions of gender roles, which must be challenged, and challenged with vigor. In nearly all countries, including America, the truth is that women have a low social status, and are considered inferior.

Bryant McGill

#15. It is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.

Simone De Beauvoir

#16. Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence.

Gloria Steinem

#17. Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.

Emma Goldman

#18. The inferiority of women is man-made.

Helen Keller

#19. Bourgeois democracy is democracy of pompous phrases, solemn words, exuberant promises and the high-sounding slogans of freedom and equality. But, in fact, it screens the non-freedom and inferiority of women, the non-freedom and inferiority of the toilers and exploited.

Vladimir Lenin

#20. Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions.

Elsa Schiaparelli

#21. If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making every effort, of making every sacrifice, to achieve your goal. A great voice will easily find teachers who are willing to help a struggling young talent, and the ways of the Lord are infinite.

Andrea Bocelli

#22. Literature is for the sake of humanity.

Cynthia Ozick

#23. The real inferiority of women to men is shown by their hate of paederasty, which they regard as unfair competition. Men on the other hand rather approve of Sapphism, as saving them trouble & expense.
- Aleister Crowley. 1929-03-09 diary entry.

Lawrence Sutin

#24. Do I strike you as a man with a miserable inferiority complex?"
"Good God, no!"
"Only that kind of man spends his life running after women.

Ayn Rand

#25. Women internalize the feminine wound or feminine inferiority so deeply, there's little or no female authority and esteem to fall back on. So they seek it by adopting and pleasing patriarchal standards.

Sue Monk Kidd

#26. Human beings are worthy of the highest respect but not all opinions and beliefs are worthy of respect and tolerance. There are some who believe in fascism, white supremacy, the inferiority of women. Must those beliefs be respected? There is a big difference between the two.

Maryam Namazie

#27. So long has the myth of feminine inferiority prevailed that women themselves find it hard to believe that their own sex was once and for a very long time the superior and dominant sex.

Elizabeth Gould Davis

#28. That is why Napoleon and Mussolini both insist so emphatically upon the inferiority of women, for if they were not inferior, they would cease to enlarge. That serves to explain in part the necessity that women so often are to men.

Virginia Woolf

#29. Weak men like humble women, especially great women who make them feel as inferior.

Brent Weeks

#30. I was going to dine at the television company's expense with one of the most beautiful women in show business and some television producer with an inferiority complex. In my experience, there's always a price.

V.T. Davy

#31. For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great beauty to it.

Edwidge Danticat

#32. Possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his own superiority. That was what he was protecting rather hot-headedly and with too much emphasis, because it was a jewel to him of the rarest price.

Virginia Woolf

#33. Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

Angelina Grimke

#34. Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.

Lisa Kleypas