Meryl Streep Quotes

I find it very interesting: when 90 percent of the critics that review films are men, how is that helpful when trying to create stories from a feminine point of view?

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

My only concern is that the L.A. Times opinion pages, unfortunately like too many in this country, are dominated by men, and I'd like to see that change.

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

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

I believe very deeply that the world would be a better place if it weren't run as it's currently run, which is by men.

All I can do is seek the information that'll make me stronger, that'll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that's something you never think about. You don't think about other people.

Women don't get the benefits of America the way men do.

Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.

I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me.

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

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

Most of the Women's Libbers I knew really didn't want to have a piece of the men's pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didn't even want a slice of.

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?

One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

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

It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.