Mike Flanagan Quotes

As a man, you will never know how a woman feels.

My mother said that we're so lucky to be women. It's not that men are weak. Men are men. We're two completely different animals.

As men, we can never fully understand the experience women go through.

I'm not involved with the female world.

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.

We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce this difference is a step back. Notions of gender pointlessly separate men from women, but also mothers from daughters and fathers from sons.

If there's anything the name #MeToo calls to us, it's that there's a lot more dimension to the equality of men and women and the empowerment of women, which also is like the empowerment of men.

For some reason, when I think feminism, I think, like, 'Well, you can't include men if you're talking about feminism and being a feminist,' so I get a little bit muddled. I find it to be a bit grey. Then if you say you are not a feminist, that means that you're not pro-woman!

If anyone says they haven't experienced sexism then I don't know what life they've lived. Males and females have, for different reasons, and I don't think it's a media thing.

Being a woman means that my male privilege seeped out of my body.

I'd refer to myself as a feminist. I don't think my music is overtly rooted in feminism. I'm a teenager, and 95 percent of my friends are boys, and that's just the way I've always been.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?

Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.

Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.

I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.