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“Why aren’t you asking a hundred other guys why they don’t write strong women characters? I believe that what I’m doing should not be remarked upon, let alone honouredâ€� Because equality is not a concept. It’s not something we should be striving for. It’s 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’re still asking me that question."

[Equality Now speech, May 15, 2006]”
― Joss Whedon

“But in every way, the shared metaphors we use of female access to power - 'knocking on the door', 'storming the citadel', 'smashing the glass ceiling', or just giving them a 'leg up' - underline female exteriority. Women in power are seen as breaking down barriers, or alternatively as taking something to which they are not quite entitled.”
― Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

“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’s also where the knives are kept.”
― Laurie Penny

“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.”
― Roberto Hogue, Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed

“I feel buried.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Schopenhauer said only men had the total objectivity necessary for genius, and that you only had to look at a woman’s shape to see that she wasn’t intended for much mental or physical work.”
― Jacky Fleming, The Trouble With Women

“Mom asked me if I was okay. I shrugged and nodded. “Well, there you goâ€�, she said. She said that sexual assault was a crime of perception. “If you don’t think you’re hurt, then you aren’tâ€�, she said. “So many women make such a big deal out of these things. But you’re stronger then thatâ€�, she went back to her crossword puzzle.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“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.”
― Jacky Fleming, The Trouble With Women

“The racism, misogyny, and counter-rationality of the reactionary right in American politics for the last several years is a frightening exhibition of the destructive force of anger deliberately nourished by hate, encouraged to rule thought, invited to control behavior. I hope our republic survives this orgy of self-indulgent rage.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters

“When African slave Phillis Wheatley wrote poetry, 18 men came to assess whether that was possible.”
― Jacky Fleming, The Trouble With Women

“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.”
― Jacky Fleming, The Trouble With Women

“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.”
― Virginia Woolf

“We always blame the woman when a man falls in love, as though no man had the courage of his inclinations.”
― Samuel Taylor, Sabrina Fair

“There are moment of sadness and moment of joy. This is life.”
― Beth Cohen

“Toute éducation des femmes doit être relative aux hommes (...) La femme est fait pour céder à l'homme et pour supporter ses injustices.”
― Rousseau

“La femme mariée est une esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un trône.”
― Balzac

“As a woman still,
without the right kind of mouth,
my tongue’s of no use.”
― Kristen Henderson, Of My Maiden Smoking

“Es gibt zwei Sorten von Männern. Die einen verstehen 'etwas von Frauen', die anderen sind solche, die einfach 'Frauen verstehen'. Ich weiß nicht, welche Sorte mir verdächtiger ist.”
― Sten Nadolny, Netzkarte

“Je suis contre le particularisme de pays, religion, d'espece. Ne comptez pas sur moi pour faire du particularisme de sexe. Je crois qu'une bonne femme vaut un homme bon, qu'une femme intelligente vaut un homme intelligent. C'est une verite simple.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar

“La nena segunda [de los Kent] debía ser ahijada de los Anderson, y no lo es por no ser varón. La mamá les había prometido un niño, que se llamaría Douglas, como míster Anderson... y nació una niña.
-¡A veces la cigüeña se equivoca! dice riendo.
Ni una sonrisa de míster Kent, que vuelve a llenar su pipa.”
― Elena Fortún, Celia institutriz

“The Renaissance (like Greek democracy or the fledgling American states) was a construct that applied mainly to privileged men.”
― Marilyn Yalom, Birth of the Chess Queen: A History

“Mijn moeder is Papa Africa's derde vrouw. Dat mag van zijn geloof. Als zijn Egyptische vrouwen een minnaar nemen, slaat hij ze dood. Dat mag ook van zijn geloof.”
― Tommy Wieringa, Dit is mijn moeder

“As a young man, I was startled by the popularity of these “misogynisticâ€� portrayals of women in literary works to begin with Nana, Miss Julie, Ulysses, Women, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Now, with some experience in life, I believe that it was fueled more by the true nature of men as arrogant, selfish, unfeeling swine in relationships with women rather than breaking down conventional idealization of women BS. If Circe is still alive, the continents would sink in the blue deep oceans under the weight of the pigs.”
― Vinko Vrbanic