In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that "a woman is as good as a man," without always pausing to think what exactly we mean by that. What, I feel, we ought to mean is something so obvious that it is apt to escape attention altogether, viz: (...) that a woman is just as much an ordinary human being as a man, with the same individual preferences, and with just as much right to the tastes and preferences of an individual. What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.
Dorothy L. SayersMots clés individuality empowerment gender women feminism self-determination misogyny stereotypes discrimination double-standards clichés dignity social-norms classification
Now, it is frequently asserted that, with women, the job does not come first. What (people cry) are women doing with this liberty of theirs? What woman really prefers a job to a home and family? Very few, I admit. It is unfortunate that they should so often have to make the choice. A man does not, as a rule, have to choose. He gets both. Nevertheless, there have been women ... who had the choice, and chose the job and made a success of it. And there have been and are many men who have sacrificed their careers for women ... When it comes to a choice, then every man or woman has to choose as an individual human being, and, like a human being, take the consequences.
Dorothy L. SayersMots clés empowerment gender women choice freedom feminism self-determination misogyny inequality stereotypes double-standards clichés career
In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.
Dorothy L. SayersMots clés empowerment gender men women feminism self-determination misogyny hypocrisy stereotypes double-standards clichés career social-norms passion-for-work
It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the "problem" of Queen Elizabeth. They invented the most complicated and astonishing reasons both for her success as a sovereign and for her tortuous matrimonial policy. She was the tool of Burleigh, she was the tool of Leicester, she was the fool of Essex; she was diseased, she was deformed, she was a man in disguise. She was a mystery, and must have some extraordinary solution. Only recently has it occrurred to a few enlightened people that the solution might be quite simple after all. She might be one of the rare people were born into the right job and put that job first.
Dorothy L. SayersMots clés success gender women history feminism misogyny hypocrisy government achievements stereotypes skills abilities double-standards clichés career good-governance queen-elizabeth-i reign
Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.
Virginia WoolfMots clés sexuality liberty empowerment gender women morality feminism self-determination misogyny hypocrisy double-standards encroachment dignity social-norms suppression chastitiy
Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
Virginia WoolfMots clés empowerment gender women on-fiction fiction problems women-writers
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out [in his History of England], she was locked up, beaten and flung about the room.
Virginia WoolfMots clés truth greatness equality gender woman fiction hypocrisy respect importance stereotypes clichés dignity abuse
Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.
Virginia WoolfMots clés arts empowerment gender women creativity liberation artists skills abilities encroachment occupation careers women-writers restrictions
This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should be understood in the same sense as when we say we are subject to natural disasters, diseases, and all the other accidents of this life: it's not a case of being subjected in the sense of obeying, but rather of suffering an imposition, not a case of serving them fearfully, but rather of tolerating them in a spirit of Christian charity, since they have been given to us by God as a spiritual trial.
Moderata FonteMots clés empowerment gender men women self-esteem feminism misogyny inequality superiority dignity social-norms subjugation pre-eminence subjection
Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.
Moderata FonteMots clés truth gender men women history feminism prejudice misogyny hypocrisy slander stereotypes double-standards clichés social-norms
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