Bertrand Russell Quotes

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.

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

No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

Any reasonable person can look at video games and see that we don't represent women well.

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

When it comes to categorizing people, men and women into a group, it gets to be very dangerous.

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

I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.

When we get feedback on women, we ask, "Is that real or is that the gender bias at play?" Everyone could start doing that today and I think we'd see really big results.

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.

I get letters from people who say, 'What have you got against women?' What could I possibly have against women? I've married three of them.

People will say to me, ‘You’ve played so many strong women,’ and I’ll say, ‘Have you ever said to a man, “You’ve played so many strong men?”’ No! Because the expectation is [men] are varied. Why can’t we have that expectation about women?

Women blame men for their own singlehood.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

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

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

I don't think women are dumb.

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

When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy. Sometimes it doesn't stop there.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

Both men and women are really vast and boundless and yet in many films we're told that they're not. We're told they can only be one thing - like handsome and charming and that's it. Nothing more.