Marilyn French Quotes

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority.

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

An executive producer with an all-male writing staff once inadvertently revealed his deep, dark fear. While discussing a full-time position for me, he mused out loud, 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change everything.' Of course, what he really meant was: 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change me.'

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

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

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

The real victims of men are other men.

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

It seems a lot of straight men need a word coach or a lawyer when it comes to discussing 'Sex and the City.'

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

I don't think we are the same, women and men. We're different. But I don't think we are less than men. There are more women than men in the world - ask any single woman! So, it is shocking that men are in more positions of power.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.