Showing posts with label Women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Women. Show all posts

Thursday, August 13, 2020

Feminism and Women

 

"Modern equal opportunity laws state that when you apply for a job these days  you no longer have to reveal your gender.  Which must get very confusing because how do they know how much to pay people?" - Alfie Moore

"She failed to make herself heard over the roaring testosterone." - Liza Cody, slightly revised

"It is a fact universally acknowledged that a woman in possession of an opinion must be in want of a correction." -Rebecca Solnit

“The woman wage-earner is under one aspect an object of charity, under another an economic pervert, under another a social menace."  - Flora McDonald Thompson, 1904.

"What has taken so long about recognizing that women are people?” -Senator Jacob Javits (R-NY) 1976.

"Naked women are the hardest women to arrest." - Sandra Webster

"Boys will be boys -- If you teach them that's what a boy is." - Thomas Pluck

"As a woman, I was better suited to a career in something more traditionally feminine, like becoming a prostitute or dying in childbirth." - Allie Rubin

“No self-respecting businessman with a brain would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age” -Godfrey Bloom, Member of the European Parliament's Committee for Women's Rights and Gender Equality, 2004.

“I think hipster misogynists need to start getting messages that hipster misogyny isn’t a marketable skill” - Ophelia Benson

“I am a feminist because I love men, and I believe that they are capable and strong and wise. I am a feminist because I love women, and I believe that they too are capable and strong and wise.” -Kelly Barnhill