Donald Symons quotes

“The sexually insatiable woman is to be found primarily, if not exclusively, in the ideology of feminism, the hopes of boys, and the fears of men.”
-- Donald Symons

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“You cannot understand what a person is saying unless you understand who they are arguing with.”
-- Donald Symons

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“Everywhere sex is understood to be something females have that males want.”
-- Donald Symons

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“Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.”

“The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

“There's life outside Backstreet Boys that is going on and continuing.”

“Was it possible I'd labeled him incorrectly? Shallow jocksdidn't overcome adversity and accomplish the things Leif had. I'd labeled him, not even knowing him. Just because girls went gaga over him andevery boy wanted to be him didn't make him a jerk. The only jerk in the room happened to be the judgmental, elitist female. Me.”

“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”

“When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.”

“Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?”

Source : "Dem debaters target Bush", www.cnn.com. January 23, 2004.

“It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.”

“There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”

“One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.”

Source : Barbara Smith (1983). “Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology”, p.36, Rutgers University Press