Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.

We've got some very strong and robust ladies, but, when your life is at risk, I think the strain of that in a competitive situation will tell when you're trying to win. The mental stress I think would be pretty difficult for a lady to deal with in a practical fashion. I just don't think they have aptitude to win a Formula 1 race.

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

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

'Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.

I don't think women are dumb.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

Most people think that girls can't play because they're girls.

Endless books claim that the brains of men and women are wired differently. They have titles such as 'Why Men Don't Iron' and set out to convince us that women are somehow biologically suited to getting the creases out of clothes while men peruse maps.

The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren't different, perhaps more so.

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

Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

... if you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him or advising him about clothes.

I don't know if I'm sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women's bracket.

Many men I come across see women in an antagonistic way, and it's always the basis for a bad relationship. What I mean by that is men who come with pre-conceived notions that women are trying to tie them down, or hold them back, or that women are shallow, or that women are only attracted to money, or whatever it is.

Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.

Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.

Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it, as a sure maxim: "That women are timid:" And 'tis well they are--else there would beno dealing with them.

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any.

I generally don't like living in a world where being what a man is, is a horrible thing; and no matter what a woman is, is a wonderful thing.

I never go to movies where the hero's tits are bigger than the heroine's.

Because so many rooms are run by men they're just used to women being the "that" - to be adored and dreamed about.