Garrison Keillor Quotes

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

Strong women only marry weak men.

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

It's always fascinating to me, one, when they like to throw President [Bill] Clinton's behavior in Secretary [Hillary] Clinton's face, I've never seen anything like it before in my entire career, of watching a woman have to defend the behavior of her husband, because she chose to make her marriage work. That is just outrageous.

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and publicly disdained.

I'm eulogised by a lot of men, but they wouldn't take me home to meet their mothers.

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.

I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

I have not left any calamity more hurtful to man than woman.

I’m furious about the Women’s Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That’s true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

Women cannot complain about men until they start gettting better taste in them.

Everyone has been discriminated against or harassed - sexism is real.

Frankly, as secretary of state, if somebody treats you badly because you're a woman, it's your fault - not theirs.

Sexism is real.

When a woman is anything but pleasant, she is labeled as whiny, hysterical, etc.

My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'

I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

A man is known by the company he keeps, but a woman is known by the company she keeps waiting.

Women tend to be categorized as Madonnas or whores.