Marcus Buckingham Quotes

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

The strong emergence of pro-feminine values in highly masculine societies signals that traditional masculine structures will continue to be challenged as the Millennial generation grows up and gains even more influence.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Partly because women in the U.S. are better represented in the hierarchies, the culture wars over gender there have been particularly fierce.

I think that I was just on the cusp of the generation that was beginning to really challenge some of the assumptions about the role of women and the role of men on campus.

Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of God, to men.

In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

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

I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.

In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

I am absolutely stunned how the Democrats were able to somehow say that the Republicans had a war on women... What was the war on women?

I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to let men talk about this... because we need men to talk about this if it is ever going to change.

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

Feminism is liberalism, and look at what it's doing, look at what it's promoting, look at what it's condoning. All the while, we have to live in this lie that there's some sort of Republican War on Women. We don't do this to women! We don't objectify women like this.

When it comes to dividing Americans on the basis of their gender, I know a little something about the subject.

Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

We are living in a Millennial culture that is attacking "patriarchy." The culture in America as zeroed in, and it's been going on and it's been building since the modern era of the feminazis began, since the late sixties and early seventies.

I've been reading The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, which is obviously very dated now but still relevant. It's so interesting to see how far we've come and how far we haven't come with all these myths that people put onto women.