Amber Heard Quotes

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn't.

Women have a predestination to suffering.

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

A man must know how to act in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

Those who fear men like laws.

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

How can you respect a culture if the woman has to walk several steps behind her man, has to stay in the kitchen and keep her mouth shut?

I describe the relationship between man and woman as a Hegelian relationship between master and slave. As long as men are able to increase their sexual value through work, fame or wealth, while women are only powerful through their body, beauty and youth, nothing will change.

Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.

Many of us were raised with the 'be a lady' thing, and all those kind of things that can be used against you and strip you out of opportunity and power.

I don't like following the rules - the patriarchal rules.

Girl bands still do just copy the way men move onstage. To me, that is so backwards, so un-radical.

Women are socialized to be very nice and put up with a lot of things.

When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.

Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.