John Schlesinger Quotes

The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.

Machistas are out of style.

I'm not involved with the female world.

I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

As a result of the feminist revolution, 'feminine' becomes an abusive epithet.

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

Women's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

I think its feminism. If it’s tied to the last 50 years—the average size of a male’s member is 10 percent smaller than 50 years ago—it has to be the feminazis, the chickafication, and everything else.

The very same people who 40 years ago were saying that feminism was unnatural and unnecessary are now saying “Well, it used to be necessary, but it’s not any more.”

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men. They are far superior and always have been.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

I like women. I like them so much, I think every man should own two.

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.

It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than (one) film.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

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

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.

Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.

I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

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