Best quotes by Kirsten Powers on Women

Checkout quotes by Kirsten Powers on Women

• ‟ All together now: Women don't cause sexual harassment, harassers do.

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• ‟ Women likely are rejecting Trump because they know the presidential race isn't just about taxes or ISIL or immigration. It's about their place in society and how a Trump presidency would drag women back a half-century.

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• ‟ I think we have to remember that the white patriarchal system actually benefits white women in a lot of the ways and they're attached to white men who are benefiting from the system that was created by them, for them, and their fathers and their husbands and their brothers are benefiting from the system and so they are also benefiting.

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• ‟ White women are themselves oppressed and that they would therefore be able to align themselves with other oppressed people.

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• ‟ Did you know there is a war on women? Yes, it's true. Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher, Matt Taibbi, and Ed Schultz have been waging it for years with their misogynist outbursts.

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• ‟ It's time for some equal-opportunity accountability. Without it, the fight against media misogyny will continue to be perceived as a proxy war for the Democratic Party, not a fight for fair treatment of women in the public square.

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• ‟ Men don't sexually assault women because they are lustful; they do it because they want to dominate, humiliate and abuse women. They do it because they view women as objects.

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• ‟ In Trump's mind, women derive their primary value from how they look, which is probably why he owned a major beauty pageant for so many years.

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• ‟ Women cannot be equal participants in a society that views sexual assault and sexual harassment the way Donald Trump and his defenders do.

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• ‟ Women should be able to 'friend' a married - or unmarried - congressman on Facebook or follow him on Twitter without fear of being the recipient of lewd talk or behavior.

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• ‟ Women are often forced to maintain good relations with men who abuse them precisely because those men have power.

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• ‟ Rather than teach women how to negotiate with sexists or shrink themselves down to 'likeable' size, perhaps the solution would be for employers to stop being sexist. In the meantime, women will continue to be blamed for their lower salaries.

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• ‟ Strangely, while illiberal feminists treat conservative women as men in drag, men who identify as women are treated as women.

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