Jess Phillips Quotes

As soon as you are a woman with an opinion, and they don't like it, the haters will come out in full force.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

Everyone has been discriminated against or harassed - sexism is real.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

As anyone who follows me on Twitter will know, I'm fairly robust in my views on there. I get next to nothing in the way of trolling. Most women I know who regularly come close to expressing an opinion get trolled constantly. This is a men-on-women issue. Guys are pretty much doing it to the girls.

The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

The darkest page in history is the persecutions of woman.

Man's constant need to disparage woman, to humble her, to deny her equal rights, and to belittle her achievements — all are expressions of his innate envy and fear.

If you are chauvinistic mind, you will not be able to take the fact there is a strong, successful girl.

Of course there's systemic misogyny in certain parts of our culture and systemic racism and a wider range of insults women have to face.

To me, it's disheartening when you have someone take away everything you've done as a woman because of a man.

I feel, in our culture, the girl with any sort of power is called 'difficult' or various words that are demeaning just because she has a voice, has confidence, and stands for her rights. It is sad, but it is the truth of our country.

Once, I was going to a film event, and someone told me not to wear high heels to it. They said that it might intimidate the men. For some reason, I was ready to take their cue, but about an hour later, something in my head started ringing, and I thought, 'That is the worst advice anybody's ever given me.'

Yet there is clearly something about bold, neurodivergent women and girls that prompts powerful men to scrape the sides of their own putrid barrels of opinion to attack this 'terrifying' otherness.

Society has this deeply rooted love of seeing women fail.

I'm used to seeing women being degraded, slut shamed, harassed for what they look like. Even the most powerful women in the world are measured by their appearance and constantly ridiculed for it.

I've always been sure of my vision, but I've been in meetings where men have been talking about me like I'm not there... I've been told I should be a certain way, and I wondered if that would have been the case if I was a man.

Entering public life as a woman - be it as a politician, journalist, expert or activist - makes you the target of the most sinister threats, abuse and language.

It doesn't bother me if I'm getting attention because I'm a girl.

As women, we need to stand together. We are judged and objectified often enough by men.

I had to live through being a woman who thought men always had a one-up... I knew I didn't like it. I thought that's how it was.