Michael Jackson Quotes

I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.

I think for the most part men have always been the aggressors sexually. Through time immemorial they've always been in control. So I think sex is equated with power in a way, and that's scary in a way. It's scary for men that women would have that power, and I think it's scary for women to have that power - or to have that power and be sexy at the same time.

When you're 19, getting a girl to say yes, or being a dog, or being a player, cheating. Consent is all about - for me, back then - if you can get a girl to say yes, you win.

The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

Men ought to maintain the woman whom they have seduced.

some fraternities are guilty of encouraging and rewarding sexual conquest that condones or normalizes sexual assault.

All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.

Being a woman is a very powerful thing, I think, and you don't want to abuse that.

Men blackmailing you as a woman leads you to trivialise sex and say 'it's not important, what is important is myself as a person, no one owns me because of sex.'

Just in the real world I think women are the ones that have all the power anyway.

The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.

The fact is that heterosexual sex for most people is in no way free of the power relations between men and women.

Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?

What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.

The hurting of women is . . . basic to the sexual pleasure of men.

Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality.

It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.

According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom they feel they can order and humiliate, usually women, children, and animals--just as they have been ordered and humiliated by those privileged few who are in power. However, this definition does not explain why there are privileged men who behave this way toward women.

I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers - because males have got to try and justify their existence.

Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.

Why do men feel threatened by women?

Take it off first, soldier." He looked at her suspiciously. "Take what off?" "Your clothes. Entertain the troops." "My clothes?" He frowned. "I was sort of thinking you might want to do that for me." She shook her head and leaned back on one elbow, giving him her witchiest, bitchiest smile. "Strip." "Now, listen here, Francie--" Lifting a languid hand, she once again pointed toward the center of the room. "Do it real slow, good-looking," she purred. "I want to enjoy every minute.

I can think of numberless males, from Bonnard to Callahan, who have photographed their lovers and spouses, but I am having trouble finding parallel examples among my sister photographers. The act of looking appraisingly at a man, making eye contact on the street, asking to photograph him, studying his body, has always been a brazen venture for a woman, though, for a man, these acts are commonplace, even expected.