Lara Giddings Quotes

Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

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.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

After Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, we were told, 'She's the first female speaker of the House, so whether we like it or not, we've got to handle this with kid gloves. Don't go after Speaker Pelosi. You can go after other people, but you'll be branded as mean and evil if you go after the first female Speaker of the House.'

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

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

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.

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

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

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

Men don't hear women.

Men can't bear to see women cry.

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

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

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

Sometimes I try to sell shows with a female lead to networks, and that isn't something that's been a proven formula for them, so they reject it. I do feel like men get the funniest roles in movies.

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into 'women's books' except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.

Women don't get the same opportunities that men get in racing, so they don't get to learn race craft.

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

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

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