Quotes about Male privilege

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There will be great reason to suspect the Men of jealousy; and it cannot be rash to say, that their only reason for lock — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
Given our socialization into dependency, women are also poor risk takers. (...) We avoid new situations, job changes, mo — Colette Dowling, The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence
Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. (...) Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athen — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
While we avoid taking credit for success, women leap at the opportunity to take responsibility for failure. Men tend to — Colette Dowling, The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence
(...) psychiatrists today recognize the contortionist's act that was required of women in an age when they were expected — Colette Dowling, The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence
I think it evidently appears, that there is no science, office, or dignity, which Women have not an equal right to share — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
I wou'd therefore exhort all my sex (...) to betake themselves to the improvement of their minds (...) and (...) shew ou — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
We must be at least as well qualified as [Men] to teach the sciences; and if we are not seen in university chairs, it ca — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
(...) How many ladies have there been, and still are, who deserve place among the learned; and who are more capable of t — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
Where is there a Woman, who having generously trusted her liberty with a husband, does not immediately find the spaniel — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
What a wretched circle this poor way of reasoning among the Men draws them insensibly into. Why is learning useless to u — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
But where have [the Men] proved that we are not as capable of guarding ourselves from dangers, as they are of guarding u — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
Let us treat Women as our equals, (says [the 'blubblering dotard' xD Cato]) and they will immediately want to become our — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
The Men who cannot deny us to be rational creatures, wou'd have us justify their irrational opinion and treatment of us, — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
It must appear to every one (...) a matter of the greatest surprise, to observe the universal prevalence of prejudice an — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
The Men, who have taken care to engross the affairs of Religion, as well as others, to their own management, are no more — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
the many absurd notions the Men are led into by custom: Tho' there is none more absurd, than that of the great differenc — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
the Men, biased by custom, prejudice, and interest, have presumed boldly to pronounce sentence in their own favour, beca — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
it appears that there is no other difference between Men and Us than what their tyrany has created, it will then appear — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men