Jules Renard Quotes

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

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

All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill.

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.

Under capitalism the female half of the human race is doubly oppressed … firstly because the law does not give them equality with men; and secondly—and this is the main thing—they remain in ‘household bondage’; they continue to be ‘household slaves’, for they are overburdened with the drudgery if the most squalid, backbreaking and stultifying toil in the kitchen in the family household.

An executive producer with an all-male writing staff once inadvertently revealed his deep, dark fear. While discussing a full-time position for me, he mused out loud, 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change everything.' Of course, what he really meant was: 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change me.'

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

Women being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the walls.

I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology.

I do believe that men can be emasculated by successful women. I don't think I'm emasculating. But I have seen the dynamic with men who either don't make money or make less money. It's just not good for them.

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.

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

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.

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

Women are the harshest critics of other women.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

The real victims of men are other men.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.

Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.

I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.

I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.