Alison Pill Quotes

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

It is no secret that Washington, D.C., is a tempest of people and institutions relentlessly seeking power over the lives of everyday Americans.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

The House of Representatives is ruled by a small group of old men.

Men are marked out from the moment of birth to rule or to be ruled.

You don't run a feminist agenda and achieve political power.

Men have authority over women because God has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because God has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

I think the government … has a very different interest. Usually in fact the opposite of what the people's interest is.

The leaders of a party, or those who are so called, have but little sway over their followers, particularly when not in Government, and when they have it not in their power to threaten them with any very serious consequences

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.

In the United States, the two-party system of the old days is seemingly still preserved. But this is only a camouflage of the real situation. In fact, the political life of the United States ... is determined by the struggle and aspirations of pressure groups.

We’re the Republican Party in charge of every part of the this government. We have nobody to blame but ourselves.

… as long as men, even socialist men, even the best men in the world, make laws these will be to their advantage and to our disadvantage.

When everyone owns something, in reality nobody owns it. Control then occurs merely by the whims of the politicians in power.

Authoritarianism, religious fundamentalism and militarism are inherently patriarchal and hierarchical.

People think of politicians having true power, but that's less and less true. After all, they are often constrained or being edged into a corner by a whole series of contingencies.

I love how when I say the world is still run by men, and sometimes I say the world is still run by white men, people gasp as if that's news. That's not news. That's obvious.

I'm too much of a broad; I make men shake in their boots because I have a male dominance in my make-up that makes them feel emasculated.

Men like us who live on the edge and had this player life - and for even some that still do - we gotta respect women - we gotta understand that their position here is much bigger than what we might give them.

Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women.

As men, we have the illusion that we run the world.

I think in wrestling generally there is this good old boys' system. Where you always have a lot of men at the top and a lot of men making all the decisions.

I think, traditionally, power is perceived as something that belongs to men and is an excuse to behave in a disempowered way.

Society is patriarchal, so film industry by definition is certainly patriarchal. The male gaze dominated.