Theresa Rebeck Quotes

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

As a man, you will never know how a woman feels.

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

I'm not involved with the female world.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

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

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

People ask me why I'm so hard on men. It's because they've gotten a really easy ride. And it's not that I think women should take over the world. But I do think it should be 50/50.

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

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.

Sexism is real.

Thomas Jefferson once said, "Women shouldn't wrinkle their pretty little foreheads with politics." Now does that mean he was a sexist, or was he just expressing what most males, and maybe most females, felt at that time? Or are both true?

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.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

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

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?

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

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

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

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.