Etta James Quotes

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

Society has always been male; political power has always been in the hands of men.

[Referring to Jesse Jackson:] ... one of that machismo group.

The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.

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

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

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?

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

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.

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

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.

I've always liked men better than women.

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

No, feminism isn't 'over.' We need it not only to challenge injustice but because the whole gender expectations thing is bad for men, too.

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.

Feminists want to be treated equally until they are.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

It is better to be a male for one day than a female for ten

We are still uneasy with women and power…For a man to be ruthless, he has to be like Joe McCarthy. For a woman, she just has to put somebody on hold.

I believe very deeply that the world would be a better place if it weren't run as it's currently run, which is by men.

I would consider myself one of the least misogynistic men in the country - if anything, just the opposite.

I don't know why women aren't allowed to have the same sort of breadth and scope and flaws of men.