Rebecca Solnit Quotes

I can tell you what women love, and that's when people man-splain things to us about what women want and need.

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.

Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

Dealing with men in Congress - for the most part, it's pretty dispiriting in terms of the lack of regard they have for women. And they're not even... it's like they don't know what they don't know, and they don't even care what they don't know.

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.

If you don't know what mansplaining is, or manterrupting or manspread, then you're probably a guy.

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

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

It's a struggle every day to get people to invest financially in portrayals of women that aren't satisfying to straight white men.

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

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

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

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

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

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

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

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

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

When you see the misogyny of hip-hop, it's so horrible, it's so putrid, it's so, you know, odious, that we know, we smell, we see it. The misogyny that is reified, that is reinforced, that is subtly reproduced in corporate America or in church life or in synagogues and temples and the like, is sometimes more subtly dealt with.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

I think basically most men are misogynistic.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.