Marvin Harris Quotes

Men often still expect women to be under their thumb.

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

Woman does not belong to herself.... Man has made her a perpetual minor.

The only power that females have is given to them by males. The only thing which females do with that power is use it against males.

In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.

Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.

For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of our peers and our ancestresses.

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

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

The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.

I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

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

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

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

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

For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.

I think there are a lot of men who feel they're being emasculated by having the woman be in charge; I've never had that problem.

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world. Just because we got rid of the father of the nation in Egypt or Tunisia, Mubarak or Ben Ali, and in a number of other countries, does not mean that the father of the family does not still hold sway.