Harvey Penick Quotes

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

A political woman loses her beauty within a year.

I don't think I'm a bigot or a racist. But I have a truck, a Blazer. I drink beer. There are some women I do hate.

It's no secret that I'm a fan of hitting a lot of balls.

I'm going to try to get my kid involved in golf and maybe try to get my kid to try to qualify for the PGA Tour. That's my dream.

Woman is natural, that is to say, abominable.

I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.

To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.

Of course she is a fool, but so are all girls.

Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.

Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.

Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.

What is it with all of these young single white women? Overeducated - doesn't mean intelligent.

The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know; what is the 'neighbouring sex'?).

As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.

Believe it or not, I don't collaborate with women, though my agent and editor are both females. For the most part, they do little editing on my characters.

I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything "girly" with vanity or stupidity. I also think it takes away from girls' agency to say that girls who are interested in that kind of thing only are because they don't know what's good for them.

[Women] ... is nothin' but little girls in long skirts, and their hair done up.

I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains. -Holden Caulfield

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government....Man's place is in the armory.

The other thing that happened was that we have a tendency to project our own weaknesses onto another woman. I don't think men do that particularly.

There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.

This business is hard. People and producers and studios and finance guys get caught up in saying, "Women don't sell movies," or "This person doesn't sell foreign," or "You have to attach guys first," or "People don't want to see women do this." I've heard those things so many times that I've actually heard myself say them, a number of times.