Saul Bellow Quotes

I don’t have any respect to men who send women out to do their fighting for them.

Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

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

Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

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.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

I realized early on that I always hated girls who used their femininity to get what they wanted.

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.

I'll never forget when I was running, when I was knocking on doors for my first office as I served as a Cleveland city councilwoman and to have older men say to me, 'Can you do this and be a wife and a mother?' Excuse me? Women make the world go round. We multitask... But to have that kind of condescending question asked of me in modern times.

There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.

I'm out about my misogyny. Most men are misogynists, and most women are feminists. I work with a lot of women. They have their finger on the pulse of things. But women do things to other women that men would never do to other men.

There are some men that are very threatened by the fact that women play games nowadays.

There are those women who degrade the name of women, and there are men who degrade the name of women. But for the most part, we can't live without them.

Patriarchy doesn't just make men out to be ogres. Women buy into the patriarchy as well, and women make those comments as well, like, 'Boys will be boys.' Women have to undo that stuff, too.

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.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.

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.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.