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Quotes About Misogyny

My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
~ Oscar Wilde
An educated woman is a worthless woman.
~ Confucius
The hideousness {the author] sees is the reflection of himself, and of the automatic meat-lust with which he approaches another individual…Even the most "beautiful" woman is still a human creature. If {the author] approached her as such, as a being instead of as a piece of lurid meat, he would have no horrors afterwards. (in 1924, writing in response to a misogynistic article titled, 'The Ugliness of Women'.)
~ D.H. Lawrence
She is a moron and too dumb to menstruate straight. --perhaps the best line from Shooter
~ Walter Dean Myers
According to psychiatrists, the loathing such killers feel for their mothers becomes projected onto all females, resulting in what crime writer Stephen Michaud calls "malignant misogyny." Women come to be seen as noxious, disgusting creatures that deserve whatever horrors are inflicted on them—a sentiment chillingly expressed by "Hillside Strangler" Kenneth Bianchi, who steadfastly defended his atrocities.
~ Harold Schechter
You said you found Cathy by the Dumpster. This has significance because he thinks that women are trash.
~ laurie victoria
What did Sabrina Morton think was going to happen, going to the beach half-naked, drinking, and doing drugs with a bunch of guys? C'mon. We all know she wasn't raped. She simply got more of what she wanted than she'd bargained for. Girls who behave like her know the risks of their drinking, drugs, and promiscuity. They deserve whatever they get.
~ Lee Goldberg
Men! I said. You all a bunch of chauvinist morons Stephanie Plum - Ten Big Ones
~ Janet Evanovich
I think comics has this rap of being misogynistic, and that's certainly not untrue.
~ Noelle Stevenson
People talk, 'Oh your father's a misogynist, look what he said about women,' like, on 'Howard Stern.' When he gets with Howard Stern, who's a friend of his, he'll joke around, because it's a comedy show. He's allowed to have a personality.
~ Donald Trump, Jr.
Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual misogyny.
~ Jo Brand
Some men's magazines are just downright offensive.
~ Amy Schumer
Fuck her standing, Fuck her lying, Cut her throat and fuck her dying, When she's dead but not forgotten Dig her up and fuck her rotten.
~ Pat Barker
When Elizabeth Cady Stanton said that "The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation," she was obviously referring to the misogynistic God of the Old Testament.
~ Dan Barker
Woman is to man as the slave to the master, the manual to the mental worker, the barbarian to the Greek. Woman is an unfinished man, left standing on a lower step in the scale of development.
~ Will Durant
por qué los hombres, clérigos y otros, se dedican a insultar a las mujeres?
~ Christine de Pizan
I enjoy a misogynist so long as they have a wicked sense of humor and know, on some level, that they're pigs. This is why I enjoy Philip Roth but not Saul Bellow or James Salter.
~ Heidi Julavits
We creep closer to equality, before something drags us back. Misogyny mutates. Sexism and feminism are like bacteria and antibiotics; the latter forces the former to evolve. As soon as one argument against women's rights becomes useless, another takes its place.
~ Helen Lewis
As culture critic Dara Mathis tweeted about Kanye West, 'Daughters are not spiritual retribution for your misogyny.' They are neither a form of punishment nor tiny spiritual guides sent to newly show you the humanity of girls and women.
~ Peggy Orenstein
If one still needs a reason to justify being a militant feminist, then head over to the Middle East. That's where you'll find real misogyny, which is propped up by a proper patriarchy. Happy travels!
~ Dave Rubin
Why do women have cunts?" "I can't imagine." "So that men will talk to them.
~ Clifford Irving
There were worse things to be than sexist. For example, you could be the sort of person who pinched your fingers together while using the words "teeny weeny.
~ Liane Moriarty
Veronika had accused her father of being a misogynist and Thomas had told Veronika to stop acting like a pseudo lesbian intellectual.
~ Liane Moriarty
Maybe she was sexist.
~ Liane Moriarty