Top 1200 Women Bashing Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

if networks of women are formed, they should be job related and task related rather than female-concerns related. Personal networks for sociability in the context of a work organization would tend to promote the image of women contained in the temperamental model - that companies must compensate for women's deficiencies and bring them together for support because they could not make it on their own. But job-related task forces serve the social-psychological functions while reinforcing a more positive image of women.

Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.

We are always told that with women's rights and opportunities for women there's been constant progress, and it isn't true. It works in cycles.

Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though it appears to require the repudiation of any claim women might have to full human standing. In the subordination of women, inequality itself is sexualized, made into the experience of sexual pleasure, essential to sexual desire.

In every generation women have to be taught their place one more time. The subordination of women is never accomplished for once and for all.

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.

Living on the street as a kid changed the way I looked at everything. It was a different time and while it had its dangers, it was nothing like it would be today. It was the Summer of Love and there was a real sense of community among us. We were hippies who looked out for each other instead of trying to rip each other off. We only had to watch out for the police who liked to roust us just on general principles, and the kids who came in from the suburbs to do a little hippie-bashing.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

In reality, black women, women of color, are powerful, bold, dynamic, and self-assured, so there's no reason their TV counterparts shouldn't be as such.

Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.

Trans women, and women in general, have so many constraints placed on our bodies. As women, we are told not to show our bodies, and as trans people, we've been told not to exist.

Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.

I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school.

I read Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them and I found frightening pieces that related to…my own life.

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.

A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab.

People should realize women aren't just whores or virgins, I want to see women who are real human beings.

Women are incredibly intuitive. If anybody on the planet is going to evolve to the next level, that telekinetic thing, women will.

In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.

Modern women like to think we invented the idea of balancing work and family but women have always done it.

I don't think that there's a target audience at all. These stories were in circulation. The stories were told by men, told in the marketplace by men, but also behind doors by women, but there's no real record of this. It's likely they were told by women to children in their interior rooms. The story could be a negative story, they could be presented as a, "Watch out! Women will get round you, do things to you, weave you in their toils." It could be buried in it an old cautionary story about women and their wiles.

We shouldn't expect women to have it all and manage it all and I certainly don't want to be portrayed in that way - I think it's a very negative message to send women.

I can tell you what women love, and that's when people man-splain things to us about what women want and need.

Women need attention therefore women will complain, develop hatred for men and say that you're the one to blame.

My goal is to send a message to Muslim women and young women everywhere that it's okay to break stereotypes and be yourself.

Most women you know are very much interested in the man who is reputed to be deeply admired by other women.

men have their cake and get to eat it too, for while they decree themselves as representative of humanity, women who argue that men are not, are simply showing how little they know! And when men's standards are defined as human standards, then women who assert that women are different, demonstrate how 'inhuman' they are. It is a real 'Catch 22.

It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

I love women, and I have a lot of really close girlfriends, but I'm not one of those women who's like, 'Ew - that's boy stuff.'

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

I find it fascinating that sport has such a strong connection to success in business. Arguably, C-suite women are some of the most successful women, and more than half of them played at a more advanced level than just the general population of women in business that had sport in their background.

We're always being told that there's a linear progress regarding women. It only gets better, especially for women artists. It's not true.

In the first two projects I've worked on professionally, I've been doing ensemble work with other young women, which I think is pretty cool. And they both were directed by and written by women. It's been a wonderful experience of real ensemble support and women lifting each other up, and I feel really lucky for that.

To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.

I read 'Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them,' and I found frightening pieces that related to... my own life.

People sometimes say that we will know feminism has done its job when half the CEOs are women. That’s not feminism; to quote Catharine MacKinnon, it’s liberalism applied to women. Feminism will have won not when a few women get an equal piece of the oppression pie, served up in our sisters’ sweat, but when all dominating hierarchies - including economic ones - are dismantled.

Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.

I didn't have a father growing up, and I was raised with all women, and I didn't really understand men. I thought they were like women, right?

I believe in women. I desire . . . to do those things that would advance women in moral and spiritual, as well as educational work.

It's absurd to think that desire for attention doesn't drive both women and men. Why are women scrutinized for it more, then?

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.

Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.

I've been lucky enough to play lots of real women - flawed, strong, independent women - and I love it.

I think women are amazing and women's friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film.

Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.

When you peel back the layers of the anti-choice motivation, it always comes back to two things: What is the nature and purpose of human sexuality? And second, what is the role of women in the world? Sex and the role of women are inextricably linked, because if you can separate sex from procreation, you have given women the ability to participate in society on an equal basis with men.

Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

I think with the Mae Young Classic, bringing in 30 women from all over the world shows what an impact women have in the company.

NXT women have literally changed women's wrestling, and being able to be a part of the division is great for me.

Our culture hasn't stopped objectifying women. We - men and women both - are just getting better at pretending it's not happening.

I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.

I've noticed a lot of people talking about the wealth of roles for powerful women in television lately. And when I look around the room at the women here and I think about the performances that I've watched this year, what I see actually are women who are sometimes powerful and sometimes not. Sometimes sexy and sometimes not. Sometimes honourable and sometimes not. And what I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary and it's what turning me on.

The Southern Baptist Convention, as you know, decided in the year 2000 that women should not be permitted to be pastors or deacons or chaplains in the military service. Some Southern Baptist seminaries don't even permit women to teach male students. I don't agree with that. But they can go in and quote a few passages of Paul that women should be restricted in their services.

Women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much.

We have to change this idea that women are only supposed to work in the house... Women should go out and be what they want

I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.

When you take away healthcare from women, you're keeping women out of the workforce because you're eliminating their choice of when to start a family.

The most obvious ones inspiring me are probably women in political life. There are also many women in artistic endeavors, but if they're painters, you don't necessarily see them, or if they're actors, you see the role they're playing. In political life, you see women of enormous courage and smarts and humor, and that releases the talent, especially in little girls who are watching.

I am keen to create opportunities for women and youth leaders. I want to get women voters registered and protected.