Yvette Mimieux Quotes

Most parts for women have them reacting to something a man has done. Women never instigate any action; they only react it. We women have become accustomed to doing that.

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.

Women's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

Men never get free from morality, only women.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

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

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

Men can't bear to see women cry.

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

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

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.

If you're a man and you are confident and you are ambitious and strong, then you are a statesman and a leader. If you are a woman and you have those qualities, well, they have a not-so-flattering term for that.

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

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.