Lyriq Bent Quotes

Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.

The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

I find it very interesting: when 90 percent of the critics that review films are men, how is that helpful when trying to create stories from a feminine point of view?

There are definitely challenges that come with being the only woman in any room, and on a show like 'The Breakfast Club,' with strong opinions, it can be hard to get the guys to see things from my point of view.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

My only concern is that the L.A. Times opinion pages, unfortunately like too many in this country, are dominated by men, and I'd like to see that change.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

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.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.

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

It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt.

Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it's unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight.

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

Men are irrelevant.

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.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male ideas to female facts.

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

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.