Joanna Russ Quotes

One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she is anti-male; they even whisper that she's probably a lesbian.

I don't think men are the enemy. I think women are the enemy.

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

When women criticize men it's called feminism. When men criticize women it's called misogyny

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

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

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

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

I don't fear being judged as a misogynist.

Misogyny is not something that you want to be a part of.

Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

How did it come to be that you think men and women are the same? Well, there's a simple answer to the question: Feminism.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

In my opinion it is a grave error for women to feel that they must move only in women's interests... . What, after all, would we think if men all got together and kept doing things that were supposed to be in the interest of men?

People aren't comfortable thinking of women as people. Like we're not people, we're women, and that means something completely different, especially when you have power.

... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong overcome the superstitions that still engulf women.

I wouldn't call girls a hobby. It's a pastime.

I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out.

I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem.

It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not. It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests ... Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did.

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

Men!" I said. "You all a bunch of chauvinist morons" Stephanie Plum - Ten Big Ones

Men think women, they don't think men. They don't think toxic masculinity.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.