Quentin Bryce Quotes

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

The class struggle, to which Marx has specially drawn attention, is a real factor, the tokens of which are to be found on every page of history. But the struggle is not confined only to two classes: the proletariat and the capitalist; it occurs between an infinite number of groups with different interests, and above all between the elites contending for power. The existence of these groups may vary in duration, they may be based on permanent or more or less temporary characteristics. In the most savage peoples, and perhaps in all, sex determines two of these groups.

The old boys' club of closed tennis court relationships is on the way out.

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.

Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

Corruption can be a lubricant reducing the friction between new elites and old elites in a period of rapid change.

I do not wish to see men of culture asking to be entrusted with power

There are still men in the professional or behind the scenes world that are controlling women to build credibility.

men never would share power with women willingly. If we wanted it, we would have to take it.

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

Moved by the need for control, for an unchallenged top tier, the power elite in American history has thrived by placating the vulnerable and creating for them a false sense of identification—denying real class differences wherever possible.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

In Quebec, as women were getting more power, there were the men who agreed with that and the men who were afraid. I think most men are willing to share power with women, but there's fear. Every time you change something, there's a friction.

When young women get called bossy, it's often because they're trying to exercise power without status. It's not a problem that they're being dominant; the backlash arises because they're overstepping their status.

Everybody's got a puncher's chance in this game. I mean every single person on Earth. But my whole focus, my whole style, my whole dynamic is built around taking that power away from you. So where is the logic in why you're different from anybody else? There is no logic in it.

What I saw is Australia is very much an 'old boys' club. A lot of the ex-players carry a huge amount of weight and what they say, a lot goes, and that was the disappointing thing.

The personal is political for so many.

It's like when something good is happening with young people, then the old, grey people in power will be like: 'No! It cannot be like this!'

This is an important thing: People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them.

To empower women, power must be given to them, presumably by an entity that already has it. And that entity is the patriarchy. This also implies that women must be on the receiving end, waiting - politely - to be empowered. Very Victorian-era courtship, isn't it?

Black women usually don't get the luxury of faking their way through life and still succeeding, but when a white guy does it, he may even get to be the president of the United States.

I think being a scientist is a position of respect and power and access, and it's a privileged position in society. And I think there are fundamental mechanisms that keep men and women from achieving the same level of power and access and privilege in society.