Focus Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman…

— Isabel Allende

The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.

— Isabel Allende

“Misogyny is an almost inevitable byproduct of political oppression, after all, as brutalized men turn around and brutalize the next most vulnerable population.”

— G. Willow Wilson

“The wider the spread between the wealthy few and the impoverished many, the worse the social problems: a statement which appears to be true…

— Tony Judt

As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.

— Fay Weldon

I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at all, but…

— Jack D. Forbes

While gender stereotypes can have negative impacts on men as well, the vast majority of structural gender inequality: socially, politically, professionally and economically, as…

— Laura Bates

I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at all, but…

— Jack D. Forbes

Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is more insidious,…

— Anne Wilkes Tucker

Of the woes Of unhappy poverty, none is more difficult to bear Than that it heaps men with ridicule.

— Juvenal

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

— Seneca the Younger

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

— Juvenal