Viv Albertine Quotes

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

I love how when I say the world is still run by men, and sometimes I say the world is still run by white men, people gasp as if that's news. That's not news. That's obvious.

Patriarchy is so ingrained in our psyche, that most us propagate it in small ways even without realizing.

It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.

Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we want. We've been really indoctrinated with this culture of permission. I think it's true for women, and I think it's true for people of color. It's historic, and it's unfortunate and has somehow become part of our DNA. But that time has passed.

Poor people are too stupid to know they're just chess pieces in a game.

The point of privilege and the notion of mansplaining is that sometimes I definitely feel like I should shut up. That's it functioning. That's the notion of privilege functioning.

I think that liberal straight white men really need to stop patting themselves on the back for what they think they think and actually take a look at their actions.

Rich white Protestant men have held on to some measure of power in America almost solely by getting women, blacks, and other disadvantaged groups to wear crippling foot fashions. This keeps them too busy with corns and bunions to compete in the job market.

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

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

The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.

I'm far from immune to the American, perhaps historically male, prejudice toward practical and physical competence; I hope I've also considered that prejudice enough to have some distance from it.

If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.

Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

I felt that what is personal is political.

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.