Misogyny Quotes

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I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine

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 Austen

Men Feminism Equality Reason Independence Flattery Hypocrisy Empowerment Gender Rationality Misogyny Double Standards Clichs

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to.

Virginia Woolf

Feminism Women History Dignity Empowerment Gender Witches Misogyny Persecution Social Norms Suppression Anonymous Authorship

All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against qual

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 Woolf

Gender Sexism Misogyny Misandry

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poe

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 Woolf

Men Poetry Feminism Respect Equality Criticism Women Hypocrisy Dignity Empowerment Gender Judgment Misogyny Double Standards

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woma

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 Woolf

Feminism Morality Hypocrisy Liberty Dignity Empowerment Gender Misogyny Chastitiy Double Standards Encroachment

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is m

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Virginia Woolf

Men Feminism Women Empowerment Gender Emancipation Misogyny