Tarana Burke Quotes

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.

Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

When women do take on traditionally male subjects, certain male colleagues can seem affronted that a woman has dared to trespass on their subject. I could given you dozens of examples, but here's one: Max Hastings's review in the 'Sunday Times' in 2009 of Miranda Carter's book 'The Three Emperors'.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

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

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

When you see the misogyny of hip-hop, it's so horrible, it's so putrid, it's so, you know, odious, that we know, we smell, we see it. The misogyny that is reified, that is reinforced, that is subtly reproduced in corporate America or in church life or in synagogues and temples and the like, is sometimes more subtly dealt with.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

The word 'excess' has no meaning for a male.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

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.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys.

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.

Women cannot complain about men until they start gettting better taste in them.

I've definitely had my struggles with the male species, as I'm sure most girls have.

There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.

I had such a lack of respect for women that I just treated them as a hobby, trying to live up to the supposed image of Jack Nicholson and all those guys who were womanizers.

I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.

Just by existing as men, we are automatically guilty of everything in some people's minds. And, on top of that, we've created a situation in the media where men are only allowed to talk about politics and sport.

I've always been sure of my vision, but I've been in meetings where men have been talking about me like I'm not there... I've been told I should be a certain way, and I wondered if that would have been the case if I was a man.

When a guy is perceived as macho, female editors aren't going to like it - because they all want to be men.

A male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.