Rita Mae Brown Quotes

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

Men are born privileged in the scale of things - I'm generalizing, but it's true. Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

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.

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

And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

As women, you have to negotiate your way through a man's world.

Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

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

I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.

Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.