Misogyny Quotes

• Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Inspiring, Hate, Expression

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• Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

  H. L. Mencken

  Hate, Women, Inspiration

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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• A women's place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that's why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today.

  Dolores Huerta

  Needs, Attention, Our Society

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Misogyny runs deeper than religion.

  Katha Pollitt

  Running, Deeper

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• The misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it.

  Joss Whedon

  Men, Soul, Balance

  Equality Now Tribute Address, delivered 15 May 2006, Men on the Front Lines Honoree

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• Asking women to respect themselves in order to ‘earn’ the right to be treated like a human being is total horseshit. But suggesting that you have the right to treat her exactly as you please because she didn’t adhere to your archaic views of feminine propriety is misogyny, plain and simple.

  Clementine Ford

  Simple, Views, Order

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• At their core, misogyny and racism are very similar modes of thinking. Both diminish and disrespect a class of people based on a trait that is wholly distinct from their ideas, their carriage and their conduct.

  Dessa Darling

  Thinking, Class, Ideas

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• Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Occupation, May

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.588, Wordsworth Editions

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• So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'

  Patton Oswalt

  Inspirational, Positive, Fear

  "Celebrity Bostonians react to bombings" by Brandon Griggs, www.cnn.com. April 16, 2013.

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• Where those two energies [male and female energies] intersect, all creativity is possible. We already have divine creative energy within us. And what is the most powerful of these energies? The energy that patriarchy and misogyny constantly try to repress. The divine female sexual energy. The creative energy of the female. That is why I worship divine sexual female energy.

  Russell Brand

  Powerful, Creativity, Two

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• She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.

  Billy Joel

  Cutting, Evil, Laughing

  Song: She's Always A Woman To Me, Album: The Stranger, 1977

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• The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Women, Civilization

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.163, Grove Press

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• 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.

  Taylor Swift

  People, Feminism, Important

  "Taylor Swift Tops The 2015 Maxim Hot 100". Interview with Jessica Roy, www.maxim.com. May 12, 2015.

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• It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Women, Independent, Feminism

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.155, Lulu.com

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• That's unfortunately common - to blame immigrants, to blame the African-Americans who are being helped by federal programs, to blame anyone available, to direct attention away from the roots of the distress which you're suffering. This combines with xenophobia, white supremacy, racism, misogyny, and other quite unpleasant phenomena which are far from being eradicated. All of this makes for a pretty dangerous brew. But economic issues are right in the center of it. And you can see this in the fact that so many former Obama voters now voted for Trump, or just didn't bother voting.

  Noam Chomsky

  Xenophobia, Roots, White

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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• Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions about misogyny, institutional sexism that consistently places women at a disadvantage, the inequity in pay, the cult of beauty and thinness, the repeated attacks on reproductive freedom, violence against women, and on and on. I am as committed to fighting fiercely for equality as I am committed to disrupting the notion that there is an essential feminism.

  Roxane Gay

  Inspiring, Strong, Fighting

  "Roxane Gay: the bad feminist manifesto" by Roxane Gay, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2014.

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• You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.

  Elvis Presley

  Wise, Angel, Evil

  Song: (You're The) Devil In Disguise, Album: ELV1S: 30 #1 Hits

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• Black Girl Magic is a radiant revolution against misogynoir - misogyny directed towards Black women and internalized hatred. Black women are subject to so many societal messages that tell them they are not beautiful, smart, or capable. Black Girl Magic is the conscious unraveling of those toxic concepts through self-love and acceptance. It preaches that despite the pressures I face, I glow more than ever before.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Beautiful, Girl, Smart

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in.

  Katha Pollitt

  Practice, Tradition, Majors

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• Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its best, this music draws attention to complex dimensions of ghetto life ignored by most Americans. Indeed, gangsta rap's in-your-face style may do more to force America to confront crucial social problems than a million sermons or political speeches.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Rap, Ghetto, Gangsta

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• I need you by me, beside me, to guide me, to hold me, to scold me, cause when I'm bad, I'm so, so bad.

  Donna Summer

  Evil, Causes, Needs

  Song: Last Dance

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• She's filing her nails while they are dragging the lake.

  Elvis Costello

  Lakes, Evil, Nails

  Song: Watching The Detectives, Album: My Aim Is True, 1977

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• For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.

  Katha Pollitt

  Humble, Pie, Enemy

  Katha Pollitt (2007). “Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture”, p.29, Modern Library

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• Beware of pretty faces that you find, a pretty face can hide an evil mind.

  Johnny Ramistella

  Evil, Mind, Faces

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• I feel that all revolutionary causes should start with addressing misogyny.

  Ezra Miller

  Causes, Revolutionary, Should

  "New York City Joins One Billion Rising to Stop Violence Against Women: 'We Want Power, We Want Love'". www.democracynow.org. February 15, 2013.

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