The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Virginia WoolfTag: empowerment gender men women feminism emancipation misogyny
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All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are 'sides,' and it is necessary for one side to beat another side, and of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the Headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot.
Virginia WoolfTag: gender misogyny sexism misandry
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.
Virginia WoolfTag: empowerment equality gender poetry men women writing judgment feminism misogyny hypocrisy criticism respect double-standards dignity
Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
Virginia WoolfTag: empowerment gender women morality feminism misogyny hypocrisy inequality stereotypes double-standards clichés womanhood dignity protectiveness social-norms
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."
"Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Tag: books love education gender opportunities men women feminism misogyny inequality stereotypes constancy double-standards clichés social-norms
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
Mary WollstonecraftTag: empowerment gender women morality freedom virtue feminism self-determination misogyny hypocrisy independence double-standards social-norms
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
H.L. MenckenTag: definitions misogyny
You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.
Tamora PierceTag: boys misogyny fighting daine owned
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
Jane AustenTag: strength empowerment equality gender reason men women feminism self-determination misogyny hypocrisy independence rationality stereotypes flattery double-standards clichés social-norms women-s-rights
When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.
Bette DavisTag: empowerment gender women opinions feminism misogyny hypocrisy stereotypes double-standards clichés speaking-out
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