Madeleine Albright Quotes

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

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.

Man is the organizer of life, woman is his organ for carrying out plans.

Men are marked out from the moment of birth to rule or to be ruled.

How can you respect a culture if the woman has to walk several steps behind her man, has to stay in the kitchen and keep her mouth shut?

I describe the relationship between man and woman as a Hegelian relationship between master and slave. As long as men are able to increase their sexual value through work, fame or wealth, while women are only powerful through their body, beauty and youth, nothing will change.

Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women.

As men, we have the illusion that we run the world.

Society is patriarchal, so film industry by definition is certainly patriarchal. The male gaze dominated.

It's a Man's Man's Man's World

French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.

I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.

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.

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

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.

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

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

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

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my home, I'm not very democratic. I think of myself as a benevolent dictator.