Jay Leno Quotes

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

It is rather ironic that society denies women certain rights under the pretext that they are emotional beings, and may become irrational when under pressure, while resorting to the emotions argument as an excuse for men's behaviour in honour crimes.

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never 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.

Patriarchy doesn't just make men out to be ogres. Women buy into the patriarchy as well, and women make those comments as well, like, 'Boys will be boys.' Women have to undo that stuff, too.

I think we're very quick to rip other women apart when they don't fit our mold, which, quite frankly, is just as bad as a man tearing you down for something, if not worse.

Our culture hasn't stopped objectifying women. We - men and women both - are just getting better at pretending it's not happening.

If you're someone who geniunally believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the big history chart, you're the plague....It's just pointless and deadly.

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.

The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.

Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women.

I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

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

I never say 'nagging.' I think that 'nagging' is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

The left-wing thinkers and intellectuals have been more misogynist with me than the army. They can't accept that a young woman is able to think, and they underestimate the intellectual work and study I might have done. They ask who is the man behind me.

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

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.

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

It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights.

The modern model of misogyny has to do with marginalizing people who are sexual and thinking of them as dumb, or not serious, or not cool or tweedy enough to take seriously, for fear of seeming like one of the guys from 'Jersey Shore.' The sex is so much more present in sexism than, I think, ever before.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.