Wanda Sykes Quotes

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.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

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

I am tired of angry feminists. I like my women happy, gregarious... and bathed.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

A political woman loses her beauty within a year.

When you look at the comedies that are out there, 99 per cent of the time, men are the heroes. It's often thought that a woman can't be funny, that women are supposed to be sexy, not funny.

When women say no, they are immediately seen as selfish and not team players.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

When you live in a leading lady's body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

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

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

A high-powered, successful woman doesn't necessarily have the same support behind her that a man in that position would. Plus, she's expected to be a domestic goddess, as well as the best wife, mother, friend, and lover. But it's not just in politics: you see it in acting, too, and in journalism.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

No one knows what women want!

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.

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

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.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.