Alliances Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

— Andrew Dominik

“The problem with the 'masculinity crisis' is not that women have excelled too much and therefore created a crisis for men, but that we…

— Samhita Mukhopadhyay

Men are losing power in their daily lives, but manliness is still iconic of power. This creates incredible turbulence around masculinity and incredible confusion…

— Stephen Marche

Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with "usefulness" and other human virtues. If men had a more modest view of what their…

— Ellen Willis

When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but…

— Marjane Satrapi

Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction…

— Shulamith Firestone

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of…

— Germaine Greer

I feel like we need to understand feminism more as a tool to mediate, counteract, to ultimately defeat patriarchy and restore balance to our…

— Ani DiFranco

“The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have nearly run…

— Robert Jensen

We need more balance in the world - more balance of the feminine and the masculine.

— Gretchen Bleiler

The demands of having to be 'masculine' are as damaging to men as the demands of having to be 'feminine' are to women. I…

— Naomi Alderman

[M]any females would, even assuming complete economic equality between the sexes, prefer residing with males or peddling their asses on the street, thereby having…

— Valerie Solanas