Stacey Dash Quotes

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.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism' because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood.

Women must try to do things as men have tried.

We want to let those other women know … those Planned Parenthood women, the Code Pink women, and all of those women who have been neutering American men and bring us to the point of incredible weakness, to let them know that we are not going to have our men become subservient.

One of the gross misconceptions about feminism is that it's only about women. But in order for women to live freely, men have to live freely, too. Feminism has shown us that what we think of as feminine is actually defined by cultural messages and political agendas. The same holds true for men and for what constitutes masculinity. Being a feminist opens your eyes to the ways men, like women, are imprisoned in cultural stereotypes.

Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman?

People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.

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

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

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

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

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

For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are victimized. The true issue, that I try to point out, is that both sexes suffer restricted roles.

Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.

I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

There's such a stereotype about men and women. Obviously, people think men are faster and stronger and all these other things, and I don't want people to get sucked into that anymore. I want them to realize that the women are out here and doing just as awesome things. They can be just as great, too.

Women in my world are respected as much as men.

I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

Women's issues have always been a part of my life.

It seems like women don't want men to be men anymore. They want men to be women. But they really don't want what they say they want. It's very weird.