K. J. Yesudas Quotes

We were always told not to wear skirts that were too short, because what will the male teachers think of you? Or, when we started sharing classes with boys in sixth form, what will they think of you if you are wearing a miniskirt to lessons?

One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs, which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

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.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

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

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

Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.

I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

No one knows what women want!

We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.

I grew up in a home where I was literally told from a young age, 'No daughter of mine will ever wash a man's socks,' and I am pleased to say I never have. It was made clear that whatever I wanted to do I should aspire to, regardless of my gender.

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

Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

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.

Control of females is mandatory for a successful, civilized, humane and compassionate society

The progress of man has never been impeded by preconceived ideas regarding his abilities, his proper interests, and his appropriate activities. Woman has always been so hampered.

A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

There's a view in Russian society that there are 'male professions' and 'female professions.' The women should be looking after the home and children. It makes me sad. But the only thing you can do is fight it.

When values disappear, the first people to suffer are women because people start losing their respect for women.

I can't really see women in football, I don't like to say it but that's how it is.