Joey Soloway Quotes

Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't. Not yet, but according to the actuarial tables, I may have another fortysomething years to live, more or less, so it could happen. Though I'm not holding my breath.

My only concern is that the L.A. Times opinion pages, unfortunately like too many in this country, are dominated by men, and I'd like to see that change.

I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive.

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

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

The women I know are smart, interesting people who aren't just there to service the men's stories, so I don't know why our art continues to do that.

Like many traditional feminists, I became one of the boys, only better. For a while it gave me a buzz to win at their game, but ultimately, that kind of power just goes nowhere. Traditional feminism excludes men and so perpetuates conflict. I am not interested in warring about power.

Women are completely disadvantaged - despite what men will say. It is not a fair fight.

If you are a woman, you might feel torn between logical agreement and emotional resistance. Why? It seems like a simpler solution to blame men for the pay gap than to engineer your own bridge to higher pay.

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.

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.

Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

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.

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

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

When I'm dealing with the 18th century, as I do in 'The Firebird,' the difficulty isn't only finding what a woman did, it's finding her at all. Most of the sources I'm dealing with - letters and memoirs and written reports of the day - have been written by men.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

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

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.