Laurence Sterne Quotes

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.

I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

Being a woman is really crap.

I'm not involved with the female world.

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?

I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

Woman is also the element of conflict.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust 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.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist to keep women 'in their place.' To make sure that we're acting 'appropriately,' whatever that means.

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.

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

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