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Male Quotes by Adrienne Rich
- The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of…
- Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the…
- Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect…
- Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for…
- I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term. It…
- Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.…
- Sexist grammar burns into the brains of little girls and young women a message that the male is the norm, the standard, the central figure…
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- You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood
- I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body. — Javier Bardem
- A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to… — Roseanne Barr
- At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are… — Jean Baudrillard
- Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she… — Simone de Beauvoir
- Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's… — Simone de Beauvoir
- I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not… — Sarah Bernhardt
- What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's… — Halle Berry
- I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male… — Jacqueline Bisset
- Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by… — Bjork
- There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society. — Jo Brand
- My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted… — Jo Brand