Gloria Steinem Quotes

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

No, feminism isn't 'over.' We need it not only to challenge injustice but because the whole gender expectations thing is bad for men, too.

Some men feel threatened by the idea of feminism. This comes, I think, from the insecurity triggered by how boys are brought up, how their sense of self-worth is diminished if they are not 'naturally' in charge as men.

No, I don't have a feminine side. I've never been in touch with it. And the day I get in touch with my feminine side is the day I retire.

Tough guys have to be tough. But tough guys don't have to be guys.

Men, through no fault of theirs, get born into cultures that tell them that if a woman can do it, it's not worth doing, or if they're not superior to women in one way or another, they're not really masculine.

Men are better than this theology.

We need a fundamental change of mindset with regards to the way we speak and behave about sex and sexuality. Boys and men have a particularly critical role in this regard, changing the chauvinist and demeaning ways sexuality and women were traditionally dealt with in both our actions and speaking.

Men think women, they don't think men. They don't think toxic masculinity.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

I hate female men.

Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

The same way that racism is a white person's problem, violence against women is a men's problem.

If I have any sexist feelings they are aimed at men: I hate manly men.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

I think basically most men are misogynistic.

The word 'excess' has no meaning for a male.

The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.