Nicholas Gonzalez Quotes

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

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

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world—except a woman-governed world.

The oppression of women is based on custom and tradition—not religion.

We are still uneasy with women and power…For a man to be ruthless, he has to be like Joe McCarthy. For a woman, she just has to put somebody on hold.

Man was created to frame the woman.

There's still a narrower band of acceptable behavior for women than men.

All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.

The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.

There are people who don't like women holding power.

Because so many rooms are run by men they're just used to women being the "that" - to be adored and dreamed about.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.