Quotes About Oppression

Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.

I don't hate women, but I think they should be kept in cages.

[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.

The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.

When women are relegated to moods, mannerisms, and contours that conform to a single ideal of beauty and behavior, they are captured in both body and soul, and are no longer free.

When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.

Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.

I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.

We seem to be always on cusps. Women come out of the burkah, the niqab, purdah, the closet, then go back in again. Of course, what we need do is to value the happy freedom of all beings.

The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.

While sexism hurts women most intimately, it also damages men severely.

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.

What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.

What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights.

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.

A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power.

Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.

It brought back to mind the injustice I spoke of, the solitude that oppresses women intent on defending their own destinies, their own dreams, their own mistakes.

If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.