Jesse Williams Quotes

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

I have noticed when you get a bunch of dudes in a room together, and you just have one woman or two women, the dudes will bro out. And the woman won't get heard.

The point of privilege and the notion of mansplaining is that sometimes I definitely feel like I should shut up. That's it functioning. That's the notion of privilege functioning.

OOO objects have all the abjection added back in. They don't behave like normalized patriarchal subjects at all.

Being in a heterosexual relationship for a woman is always implicitly a little bit humiliating.

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

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

Obviously, the issue for the Left isn't aging white males; it is conservatives, whether they are young or old, white or nonwhite, male or female. If female aborigines were conservative, the Left would have a problem with female aborigines.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.

From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

I am performing this role of the artist and this role of the 'negress' coming into a white-box institution. It's kind of a self-appointed role: the self-designated negress.

Anything can be used for or against the welfare of women - or the welfare of anyone - depending on who controls it.

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.

Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.

In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group.

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

All women like to look up to their men.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.