“My men have turned into women and my women into men!”

“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”

“In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.”

“In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.”

“Men and women whisper to each other because they have turned a sacred gesture into a sinful act.”

“Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.”

“Some have argued that lesbian sexuality-meaning here simply women having sex with women not men-solves the problem of gender by eliminating men from women's voluntary sexual encounters. Yet women's sexuality remains constructed under conditions of male supremacy; women remain socially defined as women in relation to men; the definition of women as men's inferiors remains sexual even if not heterosexual, whether men are present at the time or not.”

“The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.”

“I hold that women, as well as men, have the right to vote, and my heart and my voice go with the movement to extend suffrage to woman.”

“Scholarly men were suspect in my town. Women could not admit to scholarship at all. Men are afraid of two things in this world, it seems—women and knowledge. Both threaten their power, eh?”