Joey Soloway Quotes

Put any woman in an area run mostly by men and rumors will fly. Unless you make it very clear that you are off limits, there is also a certain competitiveness that sets in. Some men are either trying to run you out of town or get into your pants. They don't seem to know any other way to deal with a woman. If you're not a sexual object, you're a threat.

There's still a narrower band of acceptable behavior for women than men.

It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.

If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss.

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.

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

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

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

Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man.

No one knows what women want!

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

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend.

It's okay for a guy to be a baddie, but a woman? No, we can't deal with that.

People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.