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That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody helps me any best place. And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm. I have plowed, I have planted and I have gathered into barns. And no man could head me. And ain't I a woman?
- Sojourner Truth, Akron, Ohio, Women's Rights Convention, 1851
When we don't let boys cry tears, some will cry bullets.
- William Pollack, PhD, co-director of the Center for Men at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Recently, when testifying after feminists who stated "It is a fact that when fathers ask for custody, they win 70% of the time," I stated, "Yes, this is true... and I think it is damn noble of us, as men, to give up this advantage we have and ask that you implement this joint-custody legislation."
- Stuart Miller, American Coalition for Fathers and Children
Give me Librium or give me Valium. I regret that I have but one tranquilizer to take for my country.
- P.C. Seldom
Women in the United States are more homicidal than men in Japan. According to federal statistics, more American women are attacked by other women than by husbands or ex-husbands.
- Cathy Young, Ceasefire, p 90 1999
The nature of men's responsibilities distanced men from feelings, whereas the nature of women's responsibilities encouraged the expression of feelings. Men's pay paid women to love and nurture, to connect and feel. ... In contrast, men received their pay by being some form of killer-protector. By becoming a human doing ... not a human being ... Why? Societies in which men are unwilling to dispose of themselves in war were societies that usually got disposed of. Societies that were protected were protected by killers.
- Warren Farrell, Women Will Not Hear What Men Do Not Say, p 59 1999
Most people believe all courts require evidence. Wrong.
- Lisa D. Scott, Taking Action against Bias in the System (TABS)
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