Mandy Patinkin Quotes

Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all.

I'm quite a chauvinistic person.

When people say, "Oh, she plays like a dude," it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, "Oh, she's as good as us." Of course, that's a stupid statement.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

Most of the time, you can beat a woman in an argument.

There's an ingrained mentality in our culture that women aren't as good. Other places, it doesn't exist.

Being a female guitar player back in school wasn't great, and I had to change schools so many times. The male drummers and bass players thought it was cool, but male guitar players said, 'It's a guy's thing. You should be doing something else, like playing the harp.'

I should have known you'd side with them. It's some sort of of male bonding thing to think women aren't capable of running their own lives." He nuzzled the top of her head with his chin. "It's ego and sheer desperation. We have to keep you thinking we're the superior species." "News flash, Jack - no women on the face of earth believes that anymore." He trailed kisses down her cheek. "But men don't know women know that. We still live in our fantasy world, so don't muck it up for us.

You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself.

It's really funny if two women stand on the House floor. There are usually at least two men who go by and say, 'What is this, a coup?' They're almost afraid to see us in public together.

With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.

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.

A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to the domestic cliche of the woman.

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

Hey, a woman changed her mind - what else is new?

It's quite clear to me I'm not a sexist and I'm not a misogynist.

If you're funny as a woman, people think it might be because someone else helped you.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

[Referring to Jesse Jackson:] ... one of that machismo group.