Acquaintance Quote by George Eliot

Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence.

— Gloria Steinem

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather…

— Anonymous

I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'

— Joss Whedon

Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation and pleasure…

— Germaine Greer

The inferiority of women is man-made.

— Helen Keller

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not…

— Emma Goldman

it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to…

— Simone de Beauvoir

The contempt which men feel for the prostitute, and the fact that they have always regarded themselves as far superior to her, even when…

— Alison Roberta Noble Neilans

Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly…

— Stendhal

“. . . women internalize the feminine wound or feminine inferiority so deeply, there's little or no female authority and esteem to fall back…

— Sue Monk Kidd

So long has the myth of feminine inferiority prevailed that women themselves find it hard to believe that their own sex was once and…

— Elizabeth Gould Davis