Deborah Copaken Kogan Quotes

Sexism is real.

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

There is no country that has the best men.

[Women’s subjugation to men] is one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm not involved with the female world.

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.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

Hearing the Beastie Boys speak out against sexism made me feel like if these men who had once sung about getting girls to 'do the laundry' and 'clean up my room' could understand, maybe the rest of the world would follow suit. It made me hopeful in the best way.

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

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

People ask me why I'm so hard on men. It's because they've gotten a really easy ride. And it's not that I think women should take over the world. But I do think it should be 50/50.

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

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.

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

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

I've always liked men better than women.

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

I'm beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.