Tarana Burke Quotes

I think the average guy thinks they're pro-woman, just because they think they're a nice guy and someone has told them that they're awesome. But the truth is far from it.

I've definitely had my struggles with the male species, as I'm sure most girls have.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.

I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Guys who go on and on about loving women usually don't.

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

Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression - but women? I've been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I'm blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright.

The word 'excess' has no meaning for a male.

Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.

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.

On the whole, I have quite a low opinion of men.

Men are a hundred times worse than you can imagine. We are thinking the worst, shallowest thoughts, all the time.

I just think there are certain men who feel like engaging in a story told from a female point of view is somehow a feminizing experience. And that itself is something that they're almost supposed to not want to engage.

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

It's a misogynistic world. It's because of what we ask of actresses. We ask them to be sensitive, fragile, desirable. And men? We ask them to be strong and virile.

Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

If you don't know what mansplaining is, or manterrupting or manspread, then you're probably a guy.

Patriarchy doesn't just make men out to be ogres. Women buy into the patriarchy as well, and women make those comments as well, like, 'Boys will be boys.' Women have to undo that stuff, too.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

I never say 'nagging.' I think that 'nagging' is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created.

The left-wing thinkers and intellectuals have been more misogynist with me than the army. They can't accept that a young woman is able to think, and they underestimate the intellectual work and study I might have done. They ask who is the man behind me.

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.