Tamora Pierce Quotes

Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.

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.

Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?

How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister.

Why is it that all cars are women?" he asked. "Because they're fussy and demanding," answered Zee. "Because if they were men, they'd sit around and complain instead of getting the job done," I told him.

There are no dumb male questions. There are dumb males, but not dumb male questions.

Women can do anything men can do. Except math, chess, running, jumping, lifting stuff, fixing things, making money, hockey, surfing, driving, making decisions, being tall, taking out the garbage, tipping, fishing, being funny (on purpose), reading a map, listening to good bands, writing, running the country, inventing anything important, or being fun to hang out with.

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

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.

So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

A lot of times, I get asked, 'Do you feel you have a responsibility to young girls to be a role model?' I don't see that happening as much to guys. I feel like, just because I'm a girl, I'm supposed to take more responsibility? Is that how it works?

Guys are so easygoing and girls are a little harder to please, but that's okay.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

I don't know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that.

I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the 'Comedy Central Roasts' for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.

They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

I look a little bit like Barbie and talk a little bit like Ken. It's easier for me to sit in the middle of the boys' club than to be surrounded by people concerned about getting their hair and nails done.