mysogyny

Those who are so eager for women and girls to go back to the kitchen might think again about just what it is we might be up to in there. You can plan a lot of damage from a kitchen. It__ also where the knives are kept.

Life for both sexes - and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement - is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perhaps, creatures of illusion, it calls for confidence in oneself. Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself. By feeling that one has some innate superiority - it may be wealth, or rank, a straight nose, or the portrait of a grandfather by Romney - for there is no end to the pathetic devices of the human imagination - over other people.

All this talk about morality, chastity, prudence and the like are very antiquated notions created by some very old belief systems that are notoriously negative towards women.

But soon I loved her completely and wished to possess her, own her, absorb her, eat her. I wanted her in my arms and in my bed, I longed she would open her legs to me

Schopenhauer said only men had the total objectivity necessary for genius, and that you only had to look at a woman__ shape to see that she wasn__ intended for much mental or physical work.

As Darwin said by keeping women at home their achievements were paltry compared to men's which proved women were biologically inferior. And he should know because he was a Genius. You probably learned about him at school.

Now say, have women worth, or have they none? Or had they some, but with our Queen is__ gone? Nay Masculines, you have thus tax__ us long, But she, though dead, will vindicate our wrong. Let such as say our sex is void of reason Know __is a slander now, but once was tre

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless _ one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to

There are moment of sadness and moment of joy. This is life.

Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the intolerable burdens of honour and propriety, breeds repressions of other kinds as well.

Mistresses, have you ever noticed that when we disagree with a male _ I hesitate to say __an_ _ or find ourselves in a position over males, the first comment they make is always about our reputations or our monthlies?__ne of the new women snorted. Others snic

At its best fashion is a game. But for women it's a compulsory game, like net ball, and you can't get out of it by faking your period. I know I have tried. And so for a woman every outfit is a hopeful spell, cast to influence the outcome of the day. An act of trying to predict your fate, like looking at your horoscope. No wonder there are so many fashion magazines. No wonder the fashion industry is worth an estimated 900 billion dollars a year. No wonder every woman's first thought is, for nearly every event in her life, be it work, snow or birth. The semi-despairing cry of "but what will I wear?" Because when a woman says I have nothing to wear, what she really means is there is nothing here for who I am supposed to be today.

Darwin said if you made a list of eminent men, next of a list of eminent women, it was obvious that men were better at everything.

Why aren__ you asking a hundred other guys why they don__ write strong women characters? I believe that what I__ doing should not be remarked upon, let alone honoured_ Because equality is not a concept. It__ not something we should be striving for. It__ a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women. And the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who is confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now. 'So, why do you write these strong female characters?' Because you__e still asking me that ques

When African slave Phillis Wheatley wrote poetry, 18 men came to assess whether that was possible.

As a woman still,without the right kind of mouth,my tongue__ of no use.