Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka Quotes

I think, so many times in society, women are expected to behave a certain way. You are raised to say 'sorry' and 'excuse me', and get out of the way.

Gamergate isn't the problem - it's a symptom of an industry that is deeply sexist and unable to understand it.

What we've learned from the whole election cycle of 2016 President elections is men and women, men particularly, are pretty comfortable talking about women in terms that - I think it's hard for me to not believe this has been influenced by fifty years of open pornography and that kind of culture.

The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.

Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

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

I'm far from immune to the American, perhaps historically male, prejudice toward practical and physical competence; I hope I've also considered that prejudice enough to have some distance from it.

The way certain men treat women is influenced by the Internet a lot.

I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But the truth is far from it.

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.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

An executive producer with an all-male writing staff once inadvertently revealed his deep, dark fear. While discussing a full-time position for me, he mused out loud, 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change everything.' Of course, what he really meant was: 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change me.'

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

Patriarchy doesn't just make men out to be ogres. Women buy into the patriarchy as well, and women make those comments as well, like, 'Boys will be boys.' Women have to undo that stuff, too.

Even though society has come a long way in correcting the inequalities between men and women in the workplace, it still has to be said that women are oftentimes subconsciously playing to the gender roles which we are taught from birth.

Patriarchy is so ingrained in our psyche, that most us propagate it in small ways even without realizing.

A man assumes that a woman's refusal is just part of a game. Or, at any rate, a lot of men assume that. When a man says no, it's no. When a woman says no, it's yes, or at least maybe. There is even a joke to that effect. And little by little, women begin to believe in this view of themselves.

The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.

The trouble with women is men; the trouble with men, men.

My theory of everything is that we are training kids to have gender bias against girls, therefore when you are an adult, you don't see it. We think it's normal.

I think the idea that feminism is dead is dangerous because it leads women and men to believe that (1) they don't have to do anything; the work has been done, and that everything is okay now; and (2) it leaves them kind of alone, I think, in a struggle, and that's something I've seen a lot when I go to colleges and I speak to young women.

Trump is especially reviled and despised because he's really a man. He's really a man. He's really what's wrong with men, and they just can't stand this.

Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!