Anne Frank Quotes

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

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

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

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.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.

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

I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

We're really taught to be followers from a very young age - men lead and women follow.

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

There is a mindset that has to be changed - the sense of entitlement of the man. That happens when you are bringing up someone. If you are going to differentiate between a boy and a girl from age zero, then he is bound to grow up with the sense of entitlement.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

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

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.

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

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

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

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

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

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

No, feminism isn't 'over.' We need it not only to challenge injustice but because the whole gender expectations thing is bad for men, too.