O. T. Fagbenle Quotes

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue.

I see many more men who are feminist, or at least who have learned about life in the context of feminism.

I never felt the need for feminism. I never felt competition with men, which I really believed started the movement.

Men can be feminists.

Feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process...

...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists.

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

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

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

One of the few ways in which I feel I've actually matured is that as I've grown older I do find the concept of 'men' mystifying, whereas when I was a feisty young thing I was forever saying 'The most fun part of being a feminist is frightening men!'

I'd refer to myself as a feminist. I don't think my music is overtly rooted in feminism. I'm a teenager, and 95 percent of my friends are boys, and that's just the way I've always been.

I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't. Not yet, but according to the actuarial tables, I may have another fortysomething years to live, more or less, so it could happen. Though I'm not holding my breath.

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.

There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.