Dora Russell Quotes

I'm a massive feminist, but I think it's a little unfair on the other sex saying they're not in it to change the world.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

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

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

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

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys.

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

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.

Both the Army and the Navy are closed to our sex. Nor, again, are we allowed to be members of the Stock Exchange. Thus we cannot use either the pressure of force or the pressure of money. We cannot preach sermons or negotiate treaties. Then again, although it is true that we can write articles or send letters to the press, the control of the press … is entirely in the hands of your sex …

Obviously, the genes of women are flawed. They are poorly designed creatures who do not want to have sex nearly as often as needed for the human race to get along peaceably and fruitfully.

When a guy is perceived as macho, female editors aren't going to like it - because they all want to be men.

It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.

Mercedes nursed a special grievance - the grievance of sex. She was pretty and soft, and had been chivalrously treated all her days. But the present treatment by her husband and brother was everything save chivalrous. It was her custom to be helpless. They complained. Upon which impeachment of what to her was her most essential sex pregorative, she made their lives unendurable.

In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason that they were allowed to men and forbidden to women.

Because so many rooms are run by men they're just used to women being the "that" - to be adored and dreamed about.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

I'm not involved with the female world.

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.