Starhawk Quotes

I hate to say there are female and male ways of dealing with power, because I think each of us has a male and a female part. But based on my own experience, women will tend to be inclusive, to reach out more, to care a little more.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

Like many traditional feminists, I became one of the boys, only better. For a while it gave me a buzz to win at their game, but ultimately, that kind of power just goes nowhere. Traditional feminism excludes men and so perpetuates conflict. I am not interested in warring about power.

The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

Society has always been male; political power has always been in the hands of men.

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

For me, masculinity is about control, and femininity is more of an embrace, the art of listening. It's very inspiring to explore the shadows of masculinity and femininity, and the tensions between both, and the place of women in the world right now.

I get so many questions in interviews about feminism, and I think the second you start separating femininity and masculinity and giving one more power than the other, that's like - everyone is a person.

Tough guys have to be tough. But tough guys don't have to be guys.

My weakness is women.

One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine, and women are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

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?

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.