Assumption Quote by Betty Friedan

I've never believed that women have some special, essentialist qualities, or were more nurturing, cooperative, and morally superior.

— Susan Faludi

“In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we have, I…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

They wouldn't be stereotypes necessarily. But they would be reasonable facsimiles to women as a class. A class not of women, per se, but…

— Ted Bundy

I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say and do…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

It must always be borne in mind that the assumption of woman's social superiority lies at the root of these rules of conduct.

— Humphry Davy

Just ask yourself, if we weren't taught to be women, what would we be? (Ask yourself this question even if you're a man, and…

— Karen Joy Fowler

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

— Alan Ball

I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good…

— Bella Abzug

Women are the guardians of morality.

— Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne

A woman should keep her separateness, should save all her feminine qualities and purify them. In this way she is going, according to her…

— Rajneesh

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

— Ashley Montagu

Not only do we face the stereotype from these sort of archaic beliefs that women are only meant to be a certain way... But…

— Leah Williamson