Quote by C.S. Lewis

“It's the standard-issue Indian male syndrome. Mothers and sisters on a pedestal on the one hand, and loose women and prostitutes below the boot…

— Nayana Currimbhoy

“Seeing the ease and security in which these people were living, I felt that this close resemblance of the sexes was after all what…

— H.G.Wells

“Even when her rights are recognized abstractly, long-standing habit keeps them from being concretely manifested in customs. Economically, men and women almost form two…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Why should a woman feel the constant need to be guarded from men in a civilised society? The culprits in fact are suppression and…

— Prachi Bhaumik

There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often…

— Agnes Smedley

“And this led to another round of mapping as we separated men from women, finding that while the male ethos usually represented the culture…

— Lily King

“To be a woman is like becoming a prey, her every move watched by hungry predators. Every glance of man is a violation. No…

— Devdutt Pattanaik

“We need to highlight the role women play in perpetuating and sustaining patriarchal culture so that we will recognize patriarchy as a system women…

— Bell Hooks

“Like the FAIR sex, the business of their lives is gallantry. They were taught to please, and they only live to please. Yet they…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless…

— Susan Griffin

The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman about sympathy, love, sacrifice. Man cooperates…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Woman is the symbol to man of the uncleanness of bodily existence, of which he purifies himself by putting her to noble uses. She…

— Laura Riding