Audre Lorde Quotes

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.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

It's a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

I'm out about my misogyny. Most men are misogynists, and most women are feminists. I work with a lot of women. They have their finger on the pulse of things. But women do things to other women that men would never do to other men.

There's this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we're supposed to hate each other, and that's totally not productive.

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

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

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.

I just think we tear down women in this country for all these superficial reasons, and women are so great and strong.

Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

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

When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don't think that's true. I think that's one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.

Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority.

I'm just waiting for the moment where it's accepted that women are just as sexual as men without women having to be overtly sexy just to prove how 'liberated' they are.

When you see the misogyny of hip-hop, it's so horrible, it's so putrid, it's so, you know, odious, that we know, we smell, we see it. The misogyny that is reified, that is reinforced, that is subtly reproduced in corporate America or in church life or in synagogues and temples and the like, is sometimes more subtly dealt with.

Prim and proper white women, I like what I see.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.