Elizabeth Janeway Quotes

[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.

When I was growing up, it was the guys who were hardest at school who got the prettiest girls. It's a status thing.

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

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.

The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.

Aristocracy is naturally abhorrent to me, and adored equality is my idol.

As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.

As men, we have the illusion that we run the world.

Men control the world, but women control the men.

Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.

Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of God, to men.

I'm a white male, age 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me, no matter how dumb my suggestions are.

When we suggest that men are at the top because men discriminate, we miss the point. Men are at the top of the work hierarchy because work has been primarily men's responsibility.

I'd love to be a woman for one day of my life... God... I would be drunk with power.

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse

Men are forever eager to press drink upon those they consider their superiors, hoping thereby to eliminate that distinction between them.... And women, when confronted by superiors, substitute for drink the crippling liquor of their sex.

We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.

When a man loses superiority, he loses potency. That's what all this talk about castrating women is about. Castrating women are those who refuse to pretend men are better than they are and better than women are. The simple truth - that men are only equal - can undermine a culture more devastatingly than any bomb. Subversion is telling the truth.

To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.

All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.

Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we're portrayed in popular culture.

When you really look back and take the wider perspective, it makes total sense that if the status quo is to remain the way it is, women will not be lauded and applauded for bonding with and helping each other, because it would destroy the world order if women organized; it would topple the whole thing. And so, it makes perfect sense to me that the current order of things would encourage the cat fights and encourage the comparisons and encourage the girl-on-girl hate that you see just being promoted everywhere.