Benjamin Spock Quotes

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Women must try to do things as men have tried.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

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

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

No one knows what women want!

I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

It would need more than the 19th Amendment to convince me that there are no differences between men and women, or that legislation cannot take those differences into account.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

The instinct of humanity revolts against the employment of woman as a soldier on the battlefield. No civilized man would wish to lay this duty upon her; no civilized woman would wish to assume it.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.”

I feel extremely fortunate that I can be a fighter pilot and not a female fighter pilot.

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

There's no prize for being the best woman.

Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.

We may yet live to see the day when women will be no longer news! And it cannot come too soon. I want to be a peaceful, happy, normal human being, pursuing my unimpeded way through life, never having to stop to explain, defend or apologize for my sex.

It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

A woman's never too old to make an idiot of herself. It goes along with equality of the sexes and potty parity.