Fay Weldon Quotes

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.

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.

No, feminism isn't 'over.' We need it not only to challenge injustice but because the whole gender expectations thing is bad for men, too.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?

Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.

I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

If I have any sexist feelings they are aimed at men: I hate manly men.

The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male ideas to female facts.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

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

I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.

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.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.