Top Misogyny Quotes
Misogyny Definition
(n.) Hatred of women.
It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the weaker vessel; weaker than man, that is. ... That was the w...
Antonia Fraser
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history, marriage, men, women, independence, self determination, empowerment, feminism, gender, fathers
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all wri...
Jane Austen
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education, love, men, women, constancy, feminism, stereotypes, gender, opportunities, misogyny
Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of...
Virginia Woolf
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women, hypocrisy, self determination, liberty, dignity, empowerment, feminism, sexuality, morality, gender
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehen...
Charlotte Bronte
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women, hypocrisy, expectations, illusions, empowerment, feminism, stereotypes, gender, misogyny, double standards
[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory,...
Antonia Fraser
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history, marriage, men, women, independence, perception, self determination, empowerment, feminism, gender
The best sex and the most satisfying sex are not the same. I have had great sex with men who were intimate terrorists, men who seduce and attract by giving you just what you feel your heart needs then...
Bell Hooks
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love, men, women, sex, patriarchy, misogyny, sexual satisfaction, sexual attraction, sexual feelings