Tarana Burke Quotes

We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

I don't like the women who stand up for the empowerment of women at the expense of men. They try to demonize men, and they try to suggest men all want to keep us down, which is one of the reasons why I don't like that label 'feminist.'

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

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

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?

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

I'm not involved with the female world.

I think basically most men are misogynistic.

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 think its feminism. If it’s tied to the last 50 years—the average size of a male’s member is 10 percent smaller than 50 years ago—it has to be the feminazis, the chickafication, and everything else.

Women cannot complain about men until they start gettting better taste in them.

One of the big conversations I'm trying to have onstage right now is that to be pro-woman, you don't have to be anti-man. Saying all men suck makes you look like an idiot. And it's not helpful.

I would consider myself one of the least misogynistic men in the country - if anything, just the opposite.

Men are objects to me.

Misogyny is not something that you want to be a part of.

Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.

As far as feminism is concerned ... the problem in the world is men, and they, in their natural state, are essentially incompatible. They must be tamed. They must be tempered, 'cause men are naturally brutes. They fight. They sweat. They expel gas. They're dirty. They get into fights. Ewww! And we've got to somehow reprogram all of that out, because otherwise women will be in constant peril.

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

To be honest with you, I don't male-bash. I don't believe in male-bashing. I write about things that are natural, that happen in life.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

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.

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

Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'