Misogyny Quotes

You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you’re the devil in disguise.

You evil thing, why do you haunt me?

You got me sitting on the shelf, while you’re out bewitching someone else.

You keep thinking that you’ll never get burned, I just found me a brand new box of matches.

Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow a worse guide.

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

I’m lonely like Adam and you’re evil like Eve.

Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past – a past of sexism, of misogyny.

If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you’d resign in protest. To do otherwise is to be an enabler, a mafia wife.

She’s a devil, she’s an angel, she’s a woman, she’s a child. She’s a heartache when she leaves you, but she’ll leave you with a smile.

You can’t hang a man for shooting a woman who was trying to steal his horse.

Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can’t stomach his public persona. I don’t like his casual racism and casual misogyny.

The state’s interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds.

I knew Snoop Dog didn’t start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn’t start sexism, and God knows that Dr. Dre didn’t start patriarchy. Yet they extended it in vicious form within their own communities. They made vulnerable people more vulnerable.

I think what you’ve seen from Donald Trump is this whole election cycle, there’s been a level of misogyny that has become certain and fixed.

Whores, instead of claiming what’s rightfully yours. Pierced a hole in my heart from all the pain you caused, with no direction you left your first born lost.

At their core, misogyny and racism are very similar modes of thinking. Both diminish and disrespect a class of people based on a trait that is wholly distinct from their ideas, their carriage and their conduct.

Misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born. So to me, feminism is probably the most important movement that you could embrace, because it’s just basically another word for equality.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we’re pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

This is hardly a South African problem, of course. We are confronting nothing less than a global system of brutal misogyny. Too many men across the world see too many women as repositories of their rage, frustration, narcissism or simply their will to enact violence.

There are realities that one needs to deal with, but very often what we are told is political reality is merely cynicism. One could equally say that slavery is a reality, and misogyny too.

I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?

A women’s place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that’s why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today.

I’ll go through all of [12 steps for people who say are traumatized by the election], but a sample: Volunteer to fight Islamaphobia. Join the ACLU. Donate to Planned Parenthood. Take down sexism and misogyny. Sort of all the stations of the cross of liberalism. Sort of all the stations of the cross of liberalism.

Misogyny runs deeper than religion.

The point is that religion puts a value on irrationality, which makes it the perfect tool for promoting irrational beliefs like misogyny. Other ideologies can be challenged with evidence and reason, but religion is allowed a pass by most people. And that’s why it’s especially dangerous.

When people speak admiringly of a butch, what I see is someone who has taken on the best gendered characteristics of both woman and man, left a lot of the stuff born of misogyny and heterosexism behind, and walked forward into the world without apology.

Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? … a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it’s baked in.

Even the sadistic misogyny of Buddha and Christ was nothing but an attempt to gain the better of a vastly superior opponent.

It is difficult for me to imagine the same dedication to women’s rights on the part of the kind of man who lives in partnership with someone he likes and respects, and the kind of man who considers breast-augmentation surgery self-improvement.

For me, religion is serious business – a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.

The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

Misogyny is the death of the heart.

Why are you wearing that negligee? Sure makes it hard to walk away.

She’d play around and tease me with her carefree devil eyes. She’d hold me close and kiss me, but her heart was full of lies.

Asking women to respect themselves in order to ‘earn’ the right to be treated like a human being is total horseshit. But suggesting that you have the right to treat her exactly as you please because she didn’t adhere to your archaic views of feminine propriety is misogyny, plain and simple.

I feel that all revolutionary causes should start with addressing misogyny.

Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it’s funny, because it’s so completely random to me. It’s senseless.

Satan sent her from the bowels of hell, I should have recognized old Jezebel.

I’ve been a bad, bad girl – I’ve been careless with a delicate man.

Here she comes that little town flirt, you’re falling for her and you’re gonna get hurt.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves-to breakour own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.”Stewart B. Johnson”Men rule because women let them. Male misogyny is real enough, and it has dreadful consequences, but female misogyny is what keeps women out of power.

The misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who’s confronted with it.

You’re not the only one accused of hit and run. Tire tracks all across my back, well I can see you’ve had your fun.

Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual orientation.

She’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding.

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

The Trump phenomenon has a lot of really good stuff in it, the anti-elitism, the concern for America’s economy in the Rust Belt, the desire to see better days for the country. That’s all great stuff. Some of that stuff is Bernie Sanders stuff. The problem is that it’s marbled through with xenophobia and misogyny and bigotry.

She’s filing her nails while they are dragging the lake.

I need you by me, beside me, to guide me, to hold me, to scold me, cause when I’m bad, I’m so, so bad.

I believe it to my soul that you’re the devil in nylon hose, for the harder I worker the faster my money goes.

She pulls a razor from her boot and a thousand victims fall around her feet.

I’m not a poster boy for misogyny and I don’t think hip-hop should be either.

religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery – not the sole cause, but a significant contributor

I’m even afraid to lay down with you at night, because when you go to bed at night, mean woman, you got an ice pick in your hand.

People have accused me of many things: racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, intolerance, anti-Darwinism and anti-homosexualism [sic]. Well, I tell those people that there was someone else who was accused of things…our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I rest my case.

A hard headed woman, a soft hearted man, been the cause of trouble ever since the world began.

Men never believe a woman can do anything.

Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean, there lived a girl that I swear to the world made the alligators look tame.

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

The materialism, the brashness, the misogyny – everything in hip-hop is amplified. Misogyny is a good example of something that is completely amplified in hip-hop. I do think there is more than enough of a balance, though, for fans who are willing to search it out.