
Top 22 Quotes About Mansplaining
#1. Domestic violence, mansplaining, rape culture, and sexual entitlement are among the linguistic tools that redefine the world many women encounter daily and open the way to begin to change it.
Rebecca Solnit
#2. Most of philosophy is institutionalized mansplaining.
Deanna Havas
#3. She would expect explanations from her Main Man, and while I had invented mansplaining and was its foremost practitioner, I had no answers to give her.
Rick Riordan
#4. He's just invading my thoughts and my stomach and my lungs and my world. That's his superpower. Invasion.
Colleen Hoover
#6. Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
Victor Hugo
#7. Only small men parade their learning, talk over their audience and air their superior knowledge. Only brutal men throw their strength about, and vain rich men display their wealth in ostentatious useless luxuries.
John Myer
#8. So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.
E. O. Wilson
#9. Dead. things, dead things ... " I said. "Come no closer. Talking of madness and love, in this reeking place! And that old monster, Magnus, locking them up in his dungeon. How did he love them, his captives? The way boys love butterflies when they rip off their wings!
Anne Rice
#10. All Saints say that the Univers existed inside a word of 'OM'
But for me, My world existed on lap of my 'MOM'
SamarSudha
Samar Sudha
#11. Success in life is not how well we execute Plan A; it's how smoothly we cope with Plan B.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#12. ...explaining men still assume I am, in some sort of obscene impregnation metaphor, an empty vessel to be filled with their wisdom and knowledge.
Rebecca Solnit
#13. If it's not clear enough in the piece, I love it when people things to me they know and I'm interested in but don't yet know. It's when they explain things to me I know and they don't that the conversation goes awry.
Rebecca Solnit
#14. The serene confidence with which Western journalists and liberal academics prescribe solutions to our [Singapore's] problems is a source of constant wonder to us.
Goh Keng Swee
#15. Don't shrink yourself down by engaging in small, petty gossip. Rise above.
Krystal Volney
#16. I was afraid I had nothing to give. But I do. And I want to give it all to you.
Jennifer Probst
#18. It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is so hard to discover and such a surprise when you do.
Edmund Morgan
#19. I was sure I wanted to grow up to be either a veterinarian or a writer. In fact, I worked for a vet during high school, doing everything from cleaning cages to assisting in surgery.
K.A. Applegate
#20. The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right ...
Paula Rego
#21. All of a sudden you see reading in bed and waffles on Sunday and laughing at nothing and his mouth on yours. And it's so far beyond fine that you know you can never go back to fine.
Gillian Flynn
#22. But a funny thing happens when you tell a man that you don't want to get married: they don't believe you. They think you're lying to yourself or to them or you're trying to trick them in some way and you end up being made to feel worse for just telling the truth.
Jami Attenberg
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