Misogyny Quotes

There is a way that the men speak to women that reminds me too much of Pa. They listen just long eno...

Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfectio...

Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the fe...

Much popular self-help literature normalizes sexism. Rather than linking habits of being, usually co...

The best sex and the most satisfying sex are not the same. I have had great sex with men who were in...

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not de...

She had to fight against developing too combative a personality or becoming altogether a misanthrope...

Sometimes she would be engaged in a laboratory exercise or a seminar when the instructor would say, ...

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest ...

Feminism and femininity are not mutually exclusive. It is misogynistic to suggest that they are. Sad...

During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton w...

A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men whe...

In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "...

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his j...

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- o...

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to ma...

[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insistin...

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that th...

That men of this kind despise women, though a not uncommon belief, is one which hardly appears to be...

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

One would think that potential motherhood should make women as a class as sacred as the priesthood. ...

Our civil and criminal codes reflect at many points the spirit of the Mosaic. In the criminal code w...

Until our own time, history focussed on man the achiever; the higher the achiever the more likely it...

I killed little Esmerelda because I felt I owed it to myself and to the world in general. I had, aft...

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstan...

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...

Women, for their part, are always complaining that we raise them only to be vain and coquettish, tha...

Why do you consult [women's] words when it is not their mouths that speak? Consult their eyes, their...

Whether the woman shares the man's passion or not, whether she is willing or unwilling to satisfy it...

The decent man and the lover holds back even when he could obtain what he wishes. To win this silent...

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

That not all men are piggy, only some; that not all men belittle me, only some; that not all men get...

This is the underside of my world.Of course you don’t want me to be stupid, bless you! you only want...

You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you calle...

Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders t...

They'd pay attention to me less. They'd judge me by gender, by looks, by weight before anything else...

It always pisses me off when I’m calling in to some Morning Zoo radio show to promote God-only-knows...

Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from...

Jake did a quick run-through of women in his mind, not of the ones he had known or dealt with in the...

The more stories I heard, the more I tried to talk about the problem. And yet time and time again I ...

Our experiences of all forms of gender prejudice - from daily sexism to distressing harassment to se...

Cursed luck! —said he, biting his lip as he shut the door, —for man to be master of one of the fines...

Because the pure girls get rescued." Mary Lou felt something she didn't let herself feel often. She ...

Another kind of transcendence myth has been dramatization of human life in terms of conflict and vin...

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade ...

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - a...

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and ro...

Woman is soulless and possesses neither ego nor individuality, personality nor freedom, character no...

Oh, as far as unsexing is concerned, who are we to throw stones? With us any girl that cannot find a...

There is a great difference between a gift given freely, and one that's meant to tie you to a man.

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ign...

I’m not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of conf...

Marie felt a sudden urge to smash the glass, break down the door, pull down the building. She wanted...

And then I wondered if as soon as he came to like me he would sink into ordinariness, and if as soon...

You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.

The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us...

Shevek saw that he had touched in these men an impersonal animosity that went very deep. Apparently ...

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman se...

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself roun...

One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story o...

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority an...

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her c...