Myrtle Reed Quotes

One of the major differences between gender discrimination and Racial or Religious Discrimination is that the with the latter the perpetrators fundamentally recognized that it was based on power offered moral challenges. However, men—the perpetrators of discrimination against women have mostly not even considered the moral aspect of it and perceived it as natural.

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

When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Women blame men for their own singlehood.

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

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

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

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.

I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.

Women and men just aren't that different. Oh, we're different in some intriguing ways, and it can be fun to band together for all-gal or all-guy projects. But when it comes to the tragic mess Christ came to heal, we're pretty much the same.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

When I was younger, I felt very much like, 'Oh, I have to be a certain way, I have to look a certain way.' You really, really don't. That's the way women are treated differently than men. I mean, I've had actors argue with me about this.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.