{"quotes":[{"text":"In reaction against the age-old slogan, 'woman is the weaker vessel,' or the still more offensive, 'woman is a divine creature,' we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that 'a woman is as good as a man,' without always pausing to think what exactly we mean by that. What, I feel, we ought to mean is something so obvious that it is apt to escape attention altogether, viz: (...) that a woman is just as much an ordinary human being as a man, with the same individual preferences, and with just as much right to the tastes and preferences of an individual. What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["classification","clichés","dignity","discrimination","double-standards","empowerment","feminism","gender","individuality","misogyny","self-determination","social-norms","stereotypes","women"],"id":2459,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"},{"text":"He was a chicken in the outside world that turned into a lion on entering the house.","author":"Pawan Mishra","tags":["courage","cruel","cruelty","double-standards","family-issues","personality"],"id":3319,"author_id":"Pawan+Mishra"},{"text":"We met at a local restaurant.She tweeted from her Smartphone ,'Socializing is so liberating compared to being hung on Social media all the time'.I liked her tweet and asked for the Bill.","author":"Ketan Waghmare","tags":["double-standards","irony","sarcasm","social-media-addiction"],"id":27295,"author_id":"Ketan+Waghmare"},{"text":"Eating a twin banana does not necessarily mean that you are enjoying a double portion.","author":"Hanimoz Obey","tags":["blessings","christianity","creativity","double-portion","double-standards","god","jesus-christ","religion","religion-spirituality","salvation"],"id":38031,"author_id":"Hanimoz+Obey"},{"text":"[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different men – and learned men among them – have been and are so inclined to express both in speaking and in their treatises and writings so many wicked insults about women and their behaviour. Not only one or two ... But, more generally, from the treatises of all philosophers and poets and from all the orators – it would take too long to mention their names – it seems that they all speak from one and the same mouth. Thinking deeply about these matters, I began to examine my character and conduct as a natural woman and, similarly, I considered other women whose company I frequently kept, princesses, great ladies, women of the middle and lower classes, who had graciously told me of their most private and intimate thoughts, hoping that I could judge impartially and in good conscience whether the testimony of so many notable men could be true. To the best of my knowledge, no matter how long I confronted or dissected the problem, I could not see or realise how their claims could be true when compared to the natural behaviour and character of women.","author":"Christine de Pizan","tags":["behaviour","books","character","clichés","conduct","double-standards","empowerment","expectations","feminism","gender","hypocrisy","impartiality","inequality","insults","men","misogyny","morality","preconceptions","prejudice","reality-check","slander","social-norms","stereotypes","women"],"id":42025,"author_id":"Christine+de+Pizan"},{"text":"[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight.","author":"Christine de Pizan","tags":["attacks","beliefs","clichés","convictions","dignity","double-standards","feminism","gender","hypocrisy","insults","men","misogyny","preconceptions","prejudice","repartee","self-esteem","self-importance","slander","stereotypes","wit","women"],"id":53673,"author_id":"Christine+de+Pizan"},{"text":"Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["abilities","clichés","double-standards","empowerment","equality","feminism","feminist","gender","greatness","human-nature","husbands","hypocrisy","integrity","men","men-and-women","misogyny","penina-mezei","skills","stereotypes","strong","wives","women"],"id":55617,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"},{"text":"I look at Kitty, who's braiding Chris's hair in microbraids. She's being extra quiet so we forget she's here and don't kick her out. 'I think that as long as you're ready and it's what you want to do and you're protecting yourself, then it's okay and you should do what you want to do.'Margot says, 'Society is far too caught up in shaming a woman for enjoying sex and applauding a man. I mean, all of the comments are about how Lara Jean is a slut, but nobody's saying anything about Peter, and he's right there with her. It's a ridiculous double standard.","author":"Jenny Han","tags":["double-standards","feminism","scandal","slut-shaming"],"id":73176,"author_id":"Jenny+Han"},{"text":"For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.","author":"Noam Chomsky","tags":["crime","double-standards","hypocrisy","politics","power","war-crimes"],"id":73725,"author_id":"Noam+Chomsky"},{"text":"My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the same thing about men? (...)Response [by Lady Rectitude]: 'Fair sweet friend, have you not yet heard the saying that the fool sees well enough a small cut in the face of his neighbour, but he disregards the great gaping one above his own eye? I will show you the great contradiction in what the men say about the changeability and inconstancy of women. It is true that they all generally insist that women are very frail [= fickle] by nature. And since they accuse women of frailty, one would suppose that they themselves take care to maintain a reputation for constancy, or at the very least, that the women are indeed less so than they are themselves. And yet, it is obvious that they demand of women greater constancy than they themselves have, for they who claim to be of this strong and noble condition cannot refrain from a whole number of very great defects and sins, and not out of ignorance, either, but out of pure malice, knowing well how badly they are misbehaving. But all this they excuse in themselves and say that it is in the nature of man to sin, yet if it so happens that any women stray into any misdeed (of which they themselves are the cause by their great power and longhandedness), then it's suddenly all frailty and inconstancy, they claim. But it seems to me that since they do call women frail, they should not support that frailty, and not ascribe to them as a great crime what in themselves they merely consider a little defect.","author":"Christine de Pizan","tags":["clichés","constancy","double-standards","empowerment","feminism","firmness","frailty","gender","hypocrisy","inequality","men","misogyny","morality","preconceptions","prejudice","sin","slander","social-norms","stereotypes","strength-of-character","vice","virtue","women"],"id":85147,"author_id":"Christine+de+Pizan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":72,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}