Claire Danes Quotes

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

You know, it's not fair. Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Once again, no one in charge had given any thought to the possibility that a woman would be involved.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

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

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

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

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

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.

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

I'll never forget when I was running, when I was knocking on doors for my first office as I served as a Cleveland city councilwoman and to have older men say to me, 'Can you do this and be a wife and a mother?' Excuse me? Women make the world go round. We multitask... But to have that kind of condescending question asked of me in modern times.

As I got older, I had to learn to not have people speak for me. It was the first time I recognized, 'Oh, sometimes people are going to condescend to me because I'm a woman, or sometimes people aren't going to give me opportunities because of the way I look.'

If you are chauvinistic mind, you will not be able to take the fact there is a strong, successful girl.

Years ago, I worked in a newspaper office, and there were men that would have fits of temper, and it was just accepted that that's who they were, and everyone would laugh about it, but if a woman got upset or angry, something wasn't right: she was 'hysterical' or 'a little unhinged.' It didn't have the same sort of connotation at all.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

When women do take on traditionally male subjects, certain male colleagues can seem affronted that a woman has dared to trespass on their subject. I could given you dozens of examples, but here's one: Max Hastings's review in the 'Sunday Times' in 2009 of Miranda Carter's book 'The Three Emperors'.

So many women characters are extensions of male fantasy.

I have met fantastic men in my life and horrible women. I have also met some amazing women and terrible men. I have seen women who are sexists.

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