Letty Cottin Pogrebin Quotes

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

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

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

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

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

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

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

Women have to compensate more in the personality department in order to get the things that men get. And they don't have as much leeway for being divas or jerks.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

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

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

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

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

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.

Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a novel. It's just a book.

Men never get free from morality, only women.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.

Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work.

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.