Val McDermid Quotes

I think basically most men are misogynistic.

I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to let men talk about this... because we need men to talk about this if it is ever going to change.

I'm not sexist in any way - sexism is another form of violence, and there are many great men in this world.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.

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

Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.

Most men somewhere in their psyche are still dragging women around by their hair. It's terrible. I have two daughters, but even before my kids were born I always thought that it was terrible.

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do.

On the whole, I have quite a low opinion of men.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

We're not sexists, we're chauvinists -- we're male chauvinist pigs, and we're happy to be because we think that's what men were destined to be. We think that's what women want.