Kate Manne Quotes

Trying to fight misogyny using juridical moral notions is a bit like trying to fight fire with oxygen. It might work on a small scale — we do manage to blow out matches and candles, after all. But when we try to scale up the strategy, it is liable to backfire. We would be trying to put out a fire while feeding right into it.

Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

Every time a male coach berates his players by referring to them as “ladies” or tells them to “hike their skirts” while playing, we’re perpetuating an atmosphere where women are not men’s equals.

The oppression of women is based on custom and tradition—not religion.

One of the major differences between gender discrimination and Racial or Religious Discrimination is that the with the latter the perpetrators fundamentally recognized that it was based on power offered moral challenges. However, men—the perpetrators of discrimination against women have mostly not even considered the moral aspect of it and perceived it as natural.

I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior: she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

Land belongs to the men folk.

It is better to be a male for one day than a female for ten

I don’t have any respect to men who send women out to do their fighting for them.

Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.

The only power that females have is given to them by males. The only thing which females do with that power is use it against males.

Man's constant need to disparage woman, to humble her, to deny her equal rights, and to belittle her achievements — all are expressions of his innate envy and fear.

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

There’s no more despised figure on earth than a woman who seeks power.

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.