Nicholas Sparks Quotes

I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?

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.

Sure, sexism is not confined to the Conservatives. Harriet Harman has suggested that Gordon Brown didn't make her deputy prime minister because she was a woman.

At first, being girls got us a lot of attention. But no one would take us seriously.

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?

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

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

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

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

People think that I don't like women.

We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's almost never used for boys - and that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce.

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

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

We have all the mistakes of one-sex legislation.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women.

The oppression of women is based on custom and tradition—not religion.

I used to be very interested in the history of women's rights in this country and in other countries. I tried to learn as much as I could about it, and more than anything, I would be called gay. It was phenomenal. But if a boy has something to say, he is appreciated; he's even popular. If a girl says something, it's instantly a threat.

Years ago, I worked in a newspaper office, and there were men that would have fits of temper, and it was just accepted that that's who they were, and everyone would laugh about it, but if a woman got upset or angry, something wasn't right: she was 'hysterical' or 'a little unhinged.' It didn't have the same sort of connotation at all.