John Malkovich Quotes

Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are victimized. The true issue, that I try to point out, is that both sexes suffer restricted roles.

One of the things that interests me about the Regency period is how women began to stir under the thumbs of men, wanting more and bigger freedoms.

The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem.

There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.

Men are irrelevant.

For a long time in the United States, in practice if not in principle, only white, male, Protestants were born free and equal.

Knowing the horror that most women have of anything approaching irreverence, the Bible has been called out to play the part of a scarecrow on the rich fields of men’s monopolies…Men have had the management of all things human for six thousand years…Has the result been so eminently successful that we need dread a little change?

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 do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

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

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.

The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

The personal is political, but only to a point.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

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.