Cecile Richards Quotes

When women do take on traditionally male subjects, certain male colleagues can seem affronted that a woman has dared to trespass on their subject. I could given you dozens of examples, but here's one: Max Hastings's review in the 'Sunday Times' in 2009 of Miranda Carter's book 'The Three Emperors'.

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

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 think basically most men are misogynistic.

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

Men are objects to me.

If you don't know what mansplaining is, or manterrupting or manspread, then you're probably a guy.

I've always been sure of my vision, but I've been in meetings where men have been talking about me like I'm not there... I've been told I should be a certain way, and I wondered if that would have been the case if I was a man.

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don't know if it's ever not somewhere.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.

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

Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.

At the base of it, my gut instinct tells me that there's a kind of fundamental misogyny in the culture. There just is. You know, there's just a weird anxiety around women.

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

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

I'm not involved with the female world.

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

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

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

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.

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

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.