Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

“bstract gatherings such as conferences- do not use "we"; men say "women," and women adopt this word to refer to themselves; but they do…

— Simone de Beauvoir

But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same…

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Alan Ball

“You must go around the states lecturing to women. And the inoffensive writers who've never dared lecture anyone, let alone women-they are frightened of…

— Dylan Thomas

We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

— Judith Butler

“We tend to mix genders when we arrange ourselves around a table for meetings. A sort of accommodation is made by the men for…

— Anne Truitt

We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce…

— Robert Webb

Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been…

— Norah Vincent

“I was dismayed to discover that even today, speaking while female remains notoriously difficult. Across cultures, there’s a rich body of evidence showing that…

— Adam M. Grant

Women don't have to be defined by others. We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our own words,…

— Sarah Kay

“The social invisibility of women's experience is not "a failure of human communication." It is a socially arranged bias persisted in long after the…

— Joanna Russ

We are used to women's narratives being defined through the male perspective. I challenge that as a concept.

— Danai Gurira