Julie Burchill Quotes

I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.

I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive.

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

I still get blokes who say, 'Oh you hate men, don't you?' And I say, 'No, I just hate you.' I really love doing that, just to see the look on their faces.

Medieval ways of treating women are introduced into a modern society and we’re just supposed to say “Aah, that’s really interesting, how ethnic.” No, it’s wrong and we want to fight it.

Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.

I'm out about my misogyny. Most men are misogynists, and most women are feminists. I work with a lot of women. They have their finger on the pulse of things. But women do things to other women that men would never do to other men.

The representation of women in hip-hop has long been so flagrantly unkind.

I can't believe I managed to go through a liberal-arts and theater education and take all these women's-studies classes and never have addressed that the 'Muppets' were all boys, except for one pig who was obsessed with herself!

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

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

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

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

I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.

Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.

Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't. Not yet, but according to the actuarial tables, I may have another fortysomething years to live, more or less, so it could happen. Though I'm not holding my breath.

Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.