Emma Bonino Quotes

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

No one knows what women want!

Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of?

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

We had a mother who could have been called a feminist. That's just how we were raised. Why do you have to go sulk off in some corner because you are a girl? What's the big deal?

That's the trouble with the women's game. Those women think they're men, and they go off hitting all over the place. They'd be better off if they'd played like women.

I never used gender as my crutch. Many women don't use gender as a crutch.

Shrillness is not the inevitable curse of the fairer sex.

We say that "to let woman drive a car is like to let monkey fly a plane".

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.

The anti-equality right wing has interests. We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.

It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.

I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.

Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But... I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.

It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is entirely within the charmed circle of woman's sphere; but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading.

Why were the little girls all frightened To be just what they are The boys were told to ask themselves How high how far The girls were told to reach the shelves While the boys were reaching stars That's why little girls were frightened To be just what they are.

You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself.

The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.