Joan Crawford Quotes

As women, we need to stand together. We are judged and objectified often enough by men.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist to keep women 'in their place.' To make sure that we're acting 'appropriately,' whatever that means.

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.

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

I want men to stop calling me a queen and treating me like an imbecile.

I believe that it's condescending to think that women and their claims can't stand up to interrogation and can't handle skepticism.

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

Misogyny is not something that you want to be a part of.

Our long history of exploiting women's bodies and suppressing their voices had a direct impact on my case and other women's lives.

I can tell you what women love, and that's when people man-splain things to us about what women want and need.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out.

Misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born. So to me, feminism is probably the most important movement that you could embrace, because it's just basically another word for equality.

I was called a feminist, and what I heard was, 'You are an angry, sex-hating, man-hating victim lady person.' This caricature is how feminists have been warped by the people who fear feminism most, the same people who have the most to lose when feminism succeeds.

The inferiority of women is man-made.

We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society.

The stereotypes of feminists as ugly, or man-haters, or hairy, or whatever it is - that's really strategic. That's a really smart way to keep young women away from feminism, is to kind of put out this idea that all feminists hate men, or all feminists are ugly; and that they really come from a place of fear.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

A lot of the hate mail I get is clearly misogynist. I am a proud liberal, feminist woman, and the hate mail I get about those three things is not about me.

I hate the victimization of women, always.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

Who laughs less than feminists?

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.