Toni Morrison Quotes

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.

Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.

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

… male religious leaders have had -- and still have -- an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter.

Dog whistles about women who want handouts are simply an acceptable way to say that women are not worth as much as the men who must dominate the government. At the heart of Movement Conservatism is the conviction that America belongs to elite men alone.

I find the whole feminist thing very boring. They are so much on the defensive that they dare not love a man because they feel assaulted by being dependent.

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

Men in particular think that they have achieved something if they can make a woman mad, particularly if she is calm and intellectual.

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

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.

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

Most of the Women's Libbers I knew really didn't want to have a piece of the men's pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didn't even want a slice of.

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.

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

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

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.

I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?

If I have any sexist feelings they are aimed at men: I hate manly men.

If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.

I especially don't want men coming up to me and asking if sexism still exists. It's like, I'm seriously gonna barf a McDonald's salad on the next person to do that.

I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and God knows that Dr. Dre didn't start patriarchy. Yet they extended it in vicious form within their own communities. They made vulnerable people more vulnerable.

Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression - but women? I've been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I'm blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright.

If I am to be a chauvinist pig, I want to be the number one pig.

The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.