Katharine Whitehorn Quotes

I figured I could do 'It's A Man's Man's Man's World', because I believe it's the truth.

No, feminism isn't 'over.' We need it not only to challenge injustice but because the whole gender expectations thing is bad for men, too.

[Referring to Jesse Jackson:] ... one of that machismo group.

Patriarchy is bestowed on men at birth. Whether you want it or not, you have a privilege as a man, and you either fight against it and reject it by becoming a feminist man, or you enjoy the privileges that come with it.

I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

I've always liked men better than women.

I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to let men talk about this... because we need men to talk about this if it is ever going to change.

It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.

It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do.

Men are born privileged in the scale of things - I'm generalizing, but it's true. Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.