Laura van den Berg Quotes

I'm all for making a woman-empowering song. I get that, and I think that's dope. I've got a daughter, and I think that's amazing. But when you're specifically picking on guys, that's when it's not right. 'No Scrubs' is the meanest, dumbest song ever made because they need to be specific in certain areas.

A woman's desire is either terrifying, or it's ignored.

Let's just start with the word 'diva.' It is obviously a sexist slight - a term that is only applied to women, almost always in a derogatory way. It's usually applied to women who are viewed as overly ambitious. It is applied to demanding women, to women who follow their own path.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.

Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.

Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression - but women? I've been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I'm blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright.

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

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy.

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

Strong women only marry weak men.

Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of?

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.

It seems like women don't want men to be men anymore. They want men to be women. But they really don't want what they say they want. It's very weird.

The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.