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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“I trust that the publication of my life story will contribute to a correct estimate of androgvnism on the part of scientists, the molders of public opinion, and the lawmakers, and to a more kindly treatment by society of those born with this curse. It is only expressing half the truth to say that they are more to be pitied than scorned. They are wholly to be pitied.”
― Jennie June, Autobiography of an Androgyne

“People use the word pussy to insult someone for being weak. But pussies are strong, man. They can take a pounding all night. They can squeeze out a baby the size of a watermelon. But you just graze a nut sac and a man is down. We should be saying, ‘Dude, you’re such a ball sac,’ when we want to call somebody out for being weak.”
― Juliette Cross, Always Practice Safe Hex

“Our justice system isn’t just built on facts — it’s deeply influenced by image, gender, race, and bias. - When the Predator Doesn’t Fit the Profile: The Gender Double Standard in Sexual Assault Cases (blog)”
― Carlos Wallace

“Just over 93 percent and four fifths of Fortune 500 chief executive officers and board members, respectively, are men, both undeniably significant figures even for people like me who believe that feminism's goals must extend well and truly beyond the success of a small number of privileged (mostly white) women within a capitalist patriarchy.”
― Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship

“Goodness and evil know no gender; virtue and vice reside in the mind, not in one’s sex.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“Telah dikatakannya kepada putrinya dengan pahit: Politik, gadisku, bukan untuk perempuan dan gadis Namun ia tak mendengar kata-katanya. Seandainya putrinya itu seorang laki-laki, laki-laki ini tidak akan menderita seperti apa yang dialaminya sekarang. Tak satu pun dari anjing-anjing itu akan dapat melanggar kehormatan dan harga diri laki-laki ini. Baginya dan putrinya kini kematian lebih disukai.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, In Camera