Marilyn French Quotes

Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her'. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination.

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

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

I think basically most men are misogynistic.

Most men somewhere in their psyche are still dragging women around by their hair. It's terrible. I have two daughters, but even before my kids were born I always thought that it was terrible.

I'm not sexist in any way - sexism is another form of violence, and there are many great men in this world.

Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists, and that’s all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws and their codes.

You can't have a discussion about bullying unless you also have a discussion against our culture's obsession with masculinity.

This is how we court girls in America. We grab them and kiss them. And if they don't like it, we do it again, harder and longer, until they surrender. It saves us hours of witty repartee.

The whole world is men's bloody fantasies.

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

I hate female men.

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

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

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em.

The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

I still get blokes who say, 'Oh you hate men, don't you?' And I say, 'No, I just hate you.' I really love doing that, just to see the look on their faces.

On the whole, I have quite a low opinion of men.

I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.

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.