Chelsea Handler Quotes

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.

I'm not obsessed with the rights of women; it can be a bit excessive. I want to put men and women on an equal footing. I think we are equal but different.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

Women in my world are respected as much as men.

No, feminism isn't 'over.' We need it not only to challenge injustice but because the whole gender expectations thing is bad for men, too.

I don't know why women aren't allowed to have the same sort of breadth and scope and flaws of men.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

Obviously I want to support women, and I believe in women, and I think we should support each other, but we shouldn't go into extremes. Some women can get very aggressive towards men, but we need men and love men, so keeping the right balance is the most important thing.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

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

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.

When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine.

There is no country that has the best men.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

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

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.