Picking on Men

"Boys bring in to the school the values and experiences of a woman-hating culture, and most of them intend to teach the women and girls they encounter there the many lessons of male supremacy - lessons which the male teachers either endorse or do nothing to counter."

"If any man had proved sufficiently self-centred and commonplace to attempt my subjugation, I should have judged him, found him wanting and left him. The only sort of person in whose favour I could ever wish to surrender my autonomy would be just the one who did his utmost to prevent any such thing."

"They've equated their sex with power for so long that now they're faced with losing power they scream about being emasculated."

'.. men look to destroy every quality in a woman which will give her the powers of a male, for she is in their eyes already armed with the power that brought them forth...'

"The male sex still constitutes in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find."

"The ultimate male chauvinism is to play the role of conquering hero and tyrant towards those greatest arch-women of all, Earth and Nature; to ignore their needs and break their rules, to use, exploit and subdue them with the rapist's violence and lack of love."

"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."

"Women on the whole tend to be nicer and more important, nearer to God than men."

"Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all."

"In speech with a man a woman is at a disadvantage because they speak different languages. She may under stand his. Hers he will never speak or understand. In pity, or from some other motive, she must therefore, stammeringly, speak his. He listens and is flattered and thinks he has her mental measure when he has not touched even the fringe of her consciousness."

"Women have more imagination than men. They need it to tell us how wonderful we are."

"Men's insistence on being of service sometimes expresses less consideration than girls like to believe. Helping women, treating them, bestowing gifts - these things are done much more for the donor's sake, as assertions of his superiority."

"A man picks up a tramp because he wants a female companion who is no better than he is. In her company, he won't feel inferior. He rewards her by treating her like a lady."

"I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete."

"The boasted superiority of the men over our sex in the endowments of the mind is a mere commonplace vaunt."

"Suffer women once to arrive at equality with you, and they will from that moment on become your superiors."

"Failures are usually the most conceited of men."