All Quotes By Tag: Misogyny

“Do you really believe … that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.”

Card image cap - Moderata Fonte,
Tag: clichés, double-standards, feminism, gender, history, hypocrisy, men, misogyny, prejudice, slander, social-norms, stereotypes, truth, women,

“How was she created? I’m not sure if you realize this, but it was in God’s image. How can anybody dare to speak ill of something which bears such a noble imprint?”

Card image cap - Christine de Pizan,
Tag: female, god, medieval, misogyny, nature, society, woman,

“I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman’s inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman’s fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.””Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”

Card image cap - Jane Austen,
Tag: books, clichés, constancy, double-standards, education, feminism, gender, inequality, love, men, misogyny, opportunities, social-norms, stereotypes, women,