272 Quotes About Misogyny

If ghost, if whore, if virgin—same origin story:because X was a face too lovely, Y was a corpse in the lake.

There are many reasons why bad things happen to young women, and at the same time, no reason at all.

He's a bloody idiot who knows nothing about anything, but he was born with a cock, so he gets to decide for all of us.

…all you can think about is Clara Barton, the feminist icon of your youth who had to teach herself how to be a nurse and endured abuse from men telling her what to do at every turn, and you remember being so *angry* and running to your parents and asking them if women still got told what was right or proper, and your mom said ‘Yes’ and your dad said ‘No,’ and you, for the first time, had an inkling of how complicated and terrible the world was…

[Women are] responsible, not for taking care of our own bodies and lives, but for keeping society intact.

But I’ve crunched the numbers and think I’ve found my six-pack: I’ll get a new nose. The cartilage lost from one of those can be measured in grams. If I shave my head, that’s shaving off one fourth of a pound. 66.6 percent of the three-pound human brain would be another two pounds down. The vestigiality of all phalanges is coming to an end. So why keep them? And twenty-five feet of intestinal tract?Let’s half that. Anything gastric’s elastic. Ribs can be replaced with plastic.

It is how it will be done in this case," Pike said. "There has never been a female Terrene, let alone a female Reclaimer and Terrene partnership trained to fight as well as reclaim. There is doubt that such a pairing could be effective.

That seems highly unlikely, Lady Helen. Two weak elements do not make a strong whole. We would prefer that you have a male Terrene. I am sure you are most intelligent, but you are still a woman and therefore reliant upon emotion rather than logic, and subject to your sensibilities as are all your sex. You cannot be expected to have the same strength, strategic mind or logic competence as a man. A male Terrene would counter that deficit.

I just find it extraordinary that you think you have something to say.