Linda Ellerbee Quotes

'Women's fashion' is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.

Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

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.

Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.

When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though.

I think being ambitious, successful, powerful, making a lot of money - I don't care what color you are as a woman; it's difficult to find a mate. I think the natural order is that men want to be providers.

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.

I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.

Man is the organizer of life, woman is his organ for carrying out plans.

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.

Among the emasculation men fear most is subordination to women.