Jessica Savitch Quotes

For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.

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.

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.

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

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

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

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

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

Sometimes I try to sell shows with a female lead to networks, and that isn't something that's been a proven formula for them, so they reject it. I do feel like men get the funniest roles in movies.

Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.

The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

Men are born privileged in the scale of things - I'm generalizing, but it's true. Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.

Society has always been male; political power has always been in the hands of men.

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

Misogyny should be understood as the ‘law enforcement’ branch of a patriarchal order, which has the overall function of policing and enforcing its governing ideology. Sexism wears a lab coat, misogyny goes on witch hunts.... Sexism is bookish; misogyny is combative. Sexism has a theory; misogyny wields a cudgel.

Society is patriarchal, so film industry by definition is certainly patriarchal. The male gaze dominated.

When the pop culture is littered with TV shows that portray men as rapists, brutes and predators and women as the never ending victims no matter how much power they acquire, no matter how much the decks are stacked in their favor politically, they're still portrayed as weak and victims and not fairly paid and so forth. And all men want to do is get along.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.