Tracey Emin Quotes

As men, we can never fully understand the experience women go through.

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.

In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

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.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that boys and girls learn from childhood and carry into their adult lives.

No, feminism isn't 'over.' We need it not only to challenge injustice but because the whole gender expectations thing is bad for men, too.

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

Land belongs to the men folk.

Misogyny should be understood as the ‘law enforcement’ branch of a patriarchal order, which has the overall function of policing and enforcing its governing ideology. Sexism wears a lab coat, misogyny goes on witch hunts.... Sexism is bookish; misogyny is combative. Sexism has a theory; misogyny wields a cudgel.

Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend.

It's okay for a guy to be a baddie, but a woman? No, we can't deal with that.

Men are objects to me.

Gender is a shackle.

There's still a narrower band of acceptable behavior for women than men.