Sayani Gupta Quotes

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...

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

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.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

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 was certainly never conscious of 'playing the woman.' I would not have approved of that. It is not a winning tactic. I operated in the world as I found it, and it was a man's world.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'

Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men. They are far superior and always have been.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

I'm personally fed up with people seeing women and girls cast as victims.

My whole outlook towards women changed after 'Badrinath Ki Dulhania.' I am a boy who is brought up in Mumbai, and I believe I am open-minded. But I realised that there were so many things my mind was not expanded to.