Tawni O'Dell Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

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

Both the Army and the Navy are closed to our sex. Nor, again, are we allowed to be members of the Stock Exchange. Thus we cannot use either the pressure of force or the pressure of money. We cannot preach sermons or negotiate treaties. Then again, although it is true that we can write articles or send letters to the press, the control of the press … is entirely in the hands of your sex …

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.

The male domination and chauvinism of the comics form is either being wittily lampooned in 'Watchmen' or handily perpetuated, depending on whom you ask.

Women in the post-Fifties world were appendages. They existed to serve men. Their lives and concerns didn't matter, except insofar as they impinged on Important Male Things.

We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.

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

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

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.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.

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

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

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.