Susan Elizabeth Phillips Quotes

You’ve got to be prepared for the names they are going to call you compared to your male peers… You will be a floozy and a slattern. He will be virile and a ladies’ man. You will be a freakshow, a retching wretch, a sloppy drunk. He will be charismatic, vainglorious, a ferocious drunk and Dionysian. You will be indiscriminate and desperate. He will be generous, tortured and driven.

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.

What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I've worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you're not considered conventionally attractive, that also becomes an issue: you know, you're a feminist because you couldn't get a man.

I think women get labeled a lot as being crazy. But I think men make us crazy.

Female comics cannot dress provocatively on stage.

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.

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.

Conservative women in politics run a punishing gauntlet. They endure psychological evaluations and near-gynecological exams their male and liberal counterparts do not.

I don't really care for, like, fat jokes about women, specifically.

Why do women always get pointed at for their bodies?

The more successful you are as a man, the more you're liked. And the more successful you are as a woman, the more you're disliked.

I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.

I really feel like females have to go 50 extra miles. Not just one - 50 extra miles to be accepted or taken seriously.

All the news articles focus on how I look. They certainly don't do that to men.

I've gotten a lot of comments about how I look and I can't help but think, Is anyone listening to what I'm saying? If I were a guy, no one would be saying, 'Wow, look at those pants' or 'Look at those legs.'

There's a lot of pressure on women to look in a certain way. It's not easy to live in a world that objectifies women.

It is difficult for me to imagine the same dedication to women's rights on the part of the kind of man who lives in partnership with someone he likes and respects, and the kind of man who considers breast-augmentation surgery self-improvement.

For the record, this isn’t a male/female thing. It’s a people thing. You talk about men being cold...you should see women from my standpoint. We’re talking the Arctic tundra would be warmer. Believe me, you don’t want to know my vantage point on your gender. As a man, if I grabbed your breasts, I’d be arrested. Any idea how many women have felt free to grab my crotch at will? (Acheron)

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

I think it's chauvinistic to think that women don't like to get scared.

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

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.

Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.

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