Nell Scovell Quotes

Men in authority tend to abuse it – not all men, but many.

The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

When you meet powerful men or just read about them in the newspapers, you see that they don't have a sense of boundaries.

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.

There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.

[Rape] is nothing more or less than a conscious process on intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

Among the progress of the human mind that is most important for human happiness, we must count the entire destruction of the prejudices that have established inequality between the sexes, fatal even to the sex it favors….This inequality has no other source but the abuse of power, and men have tried in vain to excuse it by sophisms.

Allah has given men control over women.

I don’t have any respect to men who send women out to do their fighting for them.

Those who fear men like laws.

Man's constant need to disparage woman, to humble her, to deny her equal rights, and to belittle her achievements — all are expressions of his innate envy and fear.

There’s no more despised figure on earth than a woman who seeks power.

The Authority has the power to turn everyone against me, and they have.

Most of the Women's Libbers I knew really didn't want to have a piece of the men's pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didn't even want a slice of.

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.