H. L. Mencken Quotes

… as long as men, even socialist men, even the best men in the world, make laws these will be to their advantage and to our disadvantage.

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

The only power that females have is given to them by males. The only thing which females do with that power is use it against males.

Possibly the presence of women as voters would tend still further to promote order than has been done by the ballot …. If men choose to say that women are not their equals, women have nothing to do but to give in. Physical force, the ultimate basis of all society and all government, must be on the side of the men; and those who have the key of the position will not consent permanently to abandon it.

The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.

Women don't get the same opportunities that men get in racing, so they don't get to learn race craft.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

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

Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.