Misogny Quotes

“The Devil teaches women what they are – or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know.”
― Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Le bonheur dans le crime

“You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario which is both complicit and complex. It’s misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman’s sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than this film”
― Ryan Gosling

“I thought: And I do what countless women before me have been forced to do. I spread my legs for the man who killed my husband and my brother.”
― Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls

“I am a doctor, dear, and I know. You are gaining flesh and color, your appetite is better. I feel really much easier about you."
"I don't weigh a bit more," said I, "nor as much; and my appetite may be better in the evening, when you are here, but it is worse in the morning when you are away."
"Bless her little heart!" said he with a big hug; "she shall be as sick as she pleases!”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

“A world that is safe for mothers is safe for all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“What I hate with women generally is the intimacy, the invasion of my innermost space, the slow strangulation of my art.”
― Sebastian Horsley

“I never really liked Buddy Willard. He thought he knew everything. He thought he knew everything about women...”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“All patriarchies, in fact, only succeeded by colonizing, indeed cannibalizing the forms, emblems and sacred objects of the Goddess they were purporting to root out. Much recent theological scholarship has been devoted to recovering what in ages past every schoolgirl knew: that the Great Goddess in her threefold incarnation (maiden, mother and wisewoman) lies behind the Christian trinity, that her immature aspect of moon maiden became the Virgin Mary, and so on.”
― Rosalind Miles, Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women's History of the World

“People keep using the term "pu**y" to refer to someone weak. I say, have you ever studied a "pu**y"? Let me tell you something as a biologist and behaviorist. A "pu**y" is ten times stronger and more resilient than any "d**k" in the world. A vagina can do whatever a penis can do, ten times more efficiently, and that too while bleeding.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“There was not school in the village where Auntie Binnaz had grown up, and her father had not allowed her to walk the rutted road to town and back every day, with her brothers. They didn't have enough pairs of shoes, and she had to take care of her younger siblings anyway.”
― Elif Şafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World