Marilyn French Quotes

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

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

I'm too much of a broad; I make men shake in their boots because I have a male dominance in my make-up that makes them feel emasculated.

I like to refer to myself as king sometimes, not as queen. That's a conscious decision, because I feel like women are just equally as powerful.

The enemy of feminism isn’t men. It’s patriarchy, and patriarchy is not men. It is a system, and women can support the system of patriarchy just as men can support the fight for gender equality.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

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

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

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

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

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

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

Men that aren't threatened by opinionated, faintly aggressive women are in a minority.

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.

A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.

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

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to: you have got to take command and be the boss.' Because - and this is just an observation - women get their way.

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.