Gail Collins Quotes

It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

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.

I don't remember a single day during the time I was minister of gender, foreign minister, vice-president and president when I saw anything on the part of the men that indicated they were undermining me.

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

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

People ask me why I'm so hard on men. It's because they've gotten a really easy ride. And it's not that I think women should take over the world. But I do think it should be 50/50.

I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

Men are born privileged in the scale of things - I'm generalizing, but it's true. Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.

There is a sense that women are more anchored than men in our society.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

War they [women] understand least, and from it they instinctively recoil. There is danger in this situation. Women now have the vote, and they outnumber the men.... In spite of themselves we must protect the ladies!

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern 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.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.