Quotes About Male Chauvinism

#1. Together, we came to understand how we beg men to express feelings, but then when men do express feelings, we call it sexism, male chauvinism, or backlash.

Warren Farrell

#2. It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing. They had all the measly powers that fifties and sixties male chauvinism could contrive to bestow on a superwoman.

Michael Chabon

#3. Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it.

Camille Paglia

#4. Male chauvinism is ... a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

Michael Korda

#5. For some of us, "chauvinism" is simply a shortening of "male chauvinism." For others, it is a reminder of the dangers of devotion to the superiority of any group, gender, race, religion, or nation, or even to the truths of any era.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#6. Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.

Anita Diament

#7. The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory - and I am always trying to go to the more awkward place, the more difficult place - the more frightening it is, because I have no plan.

Nicole Krauss

#8. It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.

Germaine Greer

#9. If all these attempts fail, flag down a passing flying saucer and explain that it's vitally important you get away before your phone bill arrives.

Douglas Adams

#10. There are a lot of good men's magazines. In England, you have 'Arena Homme+' and 'Another Man;' and in France we have 'L'Officiel Hommes.' But all are looking similar.

Carine Roitfeld

#11. Actually, since I'm gay I think I should count for two guys instead of just one. I mean, in me you get the male point of view and you don't have to worry about me wanting to touch your boobies.

P.C. Cast

#12. I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that; we discussed for a minute and I wound up with the couch

Joe Haldeman

#13. Legends are born in solitude. Idiots are born in packs.

Abhijit Naskar

#14. Remember that you are not obliged to meet anyone where they are emotionally, especially if where they are is toxic or unhinged. The more visibly upset you get, the more you perpetuate the negativity; the more rattled and distracted you are, the more you give the bullies what they want. Unless

Jennifer Romolini

#15. An infinite Power must be infinitely little as well as infinitely great. We are neither, therefore there are things too little as well as too great for us to apprehend.

L.M. Montgomery

#16. The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.

Maximillian Degenerez

#17. Shame is also a covert and effective bullying method. All those bullies from the seventh grade didn't simply evaporate. They grew up, too, and it's pretty safe to assume that the majority did not seek therapy on their eighteenth birthday to explore their disturbing childhood need for cruelty.

Augusten Burroughs

#18. A penis is a penis is a penis.

Marata Eros

#19. Jay Levy saw ten women," the doctor later recalled, "And he thought they were all hysterical. Then he saw a man, whose complaints he took seriously.

Hillary Johnson

#20. I am always worried whether I am doing my best work.

William Dobell

#21. Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them.

Raheel Farooq

#22. Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb.

Ma Jian

#23. Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.

Peter Ustinov

#24. Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.

Jane Fonda