A Quote by Kim Gordon

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.

Kim Gordon

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Kim Gordon
American - Musician
Born: April 28, 1953

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?

Kim Gordon

American servicewomen will continue to be viewed as second-class warriors if leaders push them to take up the customs of countries where women are second-class citizens.

Martha McSally

When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.

Brit Marling

I am very interested in the enlightenment of women. Very few teachers of advanced self discovery work with women, and if they do it's usually in a very second handed way. They treat women as second class citizens.

Frederick Lenz

Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we're portrayed in popular culture.

Geena Davis

Throughout history, women have often been treated as second-class citizens and their voices silenced.

Abby Johnson

I remember my grandfather believed women were second-class citizens and told my mother that it was a shame she had brains because she was a girl and shouldn't carry on her education.

Sarah Gavron

At Manchester City, the women are not second-class citizens in any regard. We are treated exactly the same way - it's a level playing field.

Toni Duggan

Women are not automatically second-class citizens because they live in Islamic countries. We cannot judge the position of women in Islam aright if we take the most conservative Islamic states as representative of the whole.

Prince Charles

What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens.

Dennis Kucinich

Women are still second-class citizens.

Joan Jett

I'm very proud that a woman, has finally been chosen as a candidate for the president of the United States, because I always felt women should be treated like first-class citizens.

Stevie Nicks

At first it was a bit surreal playing in the Premier League at 16, coming up against world-class players, because it had always been my dream. But quickly, it becomes second nature to you.

Jack Rodwell

History shows that black people have been second-class citizens, less than human. That's what had to happen with slavery. You had to dehumanise a person, to say, 'He is not like us. He is used to hard work in the sun. He can handle being whipped because he doesn't feel any pain. He doesn't need to be educated.'