Quotes · Skopia

40 quotes

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 6.4

The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women.

Catharine MacKinnon

1983

★ 6.1

Sociology

What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.

Naomi Wolf

The Beauty Myth · 1990

★ 6.1

Historical literature · Feminist literature

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has seemed adequate.

Simone de Beauvoir

The Second Sex · 1949

★ 5.5

Sociology

"Beauty" is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West it is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

Naomi Wolf

The Beauty Myth · 1990

★ 5.2

Feminist literature

Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity... Patriarchy has a still more tenacious or powerful hold through its successful habit of passing itself off as nature.

Kate Millett

Sexual Politics · 1970

★ 5.1

Historical literature

Your great glory is not to be inferior to what God has made you, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether they are praising you or criticizing you.

Pericles

Thucydides, Funeral Oration, History of the Peloponnesian War · 430 BC

★ 3.7

Personal journal

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

Voltaire

1750

★ 3.7

Political literature · Feminist literature

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions, which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, they are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindiction of the Rights of Woman · 1792

★ 3.7

Political literature · Feminist literature

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman · 1792

★ 3.7

Essay · Feminist literature

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing room.

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own · 1929

★ 3.7

Newspaper

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

Jane Fonda

1989

★ 3.7

Film · Animation (film) · Musical (film) · Animation · Musical

How dare you? All of you! Standing around deciding my future? I am not a prize to be won!

Princess Jasmine

Aladdin · 1992

★ 3.7

Scripture · Religious literature

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.

Proverbs 12:4

686 BC

★ 3.6

Essay · Political literature

The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.

John Stuart Mill

The Subjection of Women · 1869

★ 3.6

Novel

It is hard for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Thomas Hardy

Far From the Madding Crowd · 1874

★ 3.6

Essay · Magazine

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke; that's their natural and first weapon.

Gloria Steinem

1972

★ 3.6

Feminist literature

If God is male, then the male is God.

Mary Daly

Beyond God the Father · 1973

★ 3.6

Political literature

It is humbling to reflect, that in those countries in which the fondness for the mere persons of women is carried to the highest excess, they are slaves; and that their moral and intellectual degradation increases in direct proportion to the adoration which is paid to mere external charms.

Hannah More

1799

★ 3.5

Poem

Man for the field and woman for the hearth: Man for the sword and for the needle she: Man with the head and woman with the heart: Man to command and woman to obey; All else confusion.

Alfred Tennyson

The Princess · 1847

★ 3.5

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