Mae West Quotes

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

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

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.

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.

I like women. I like them so much, I think every man should own two.

I think it is childish for men to joke about women's clothes, to make fun of our hats, to complain over the cost of a good fur coat.

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 remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

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

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

The world is still sexist.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

I always laugh when people call me a misogynist. I... love women! Everything I do is to impress women. And if I hated women, why would half my fans be women?

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.

Men regarded women as a servant class in the community, and that women were going to remain in the servant class until they lifted themselves out of it.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

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

Sexism is real.

I don't know why women aren't allowed to have the same sort of breadth and scope and flaws of men.

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

There's no prize for being the best woman.

Some suggest that, as a woman, I meddle in political affairs and need to be 'put in my place.'

I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.

We live in a culture that does not encourage women to be epic heroes of their own Big Stories but the mothers and lovers and wives and mistresses and muses and personal assistants, the femme fatales and fantasies and manic pixie dream girls, in someone else's Big Story, and this someone else is usually a dude.