American culture Quote by Jessica Valenti

“The majority of American women have demanded over the last half century that society reject and revise traditional norms about what women want and…

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

“Real equality for men and women needs a men’s movement to sweep away the gender roles that we continue to impose on men even…

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

“We need to highlight the role women play in perpetuating and sustaining patriarchal culture so that we will recognize patriarchy as a system women…

— Bell Hooks

Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the same time,…

— Madhuri Dixit

“Like all dominant groups, men seek to promote an image of their subordinate’s nature that contributes to the preservation of the status quo. For…

— Anonymous

“We need a new cultural definition of masculinity.”

— Jaclyn Friedman

“While an increasing number of male academic, political, and cultural figures have felt comfortable enough in recent years to proclaim themselves feminists, absorbing aspects…

— Maurice Berger

“And perhaps the sexes are more closely related than we think, and the great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in man and…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“In order to gain gender equality, women and men must work together, equally, to teach our daughters and sons to embrace our differences, respect…

— Basia Christ

“The insights, interpretations both of theory and fact, and the implicit values of this book are inevitably my own. But whether or not the…

— Betty Friedan

“Complex systems produce complicated results, and still there are identifiable patterns: Patriarchy is a system that delivers material benefits to men—unequally depending on men’s…

— Robert Jensen

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have…

— Malala Yousafzai