Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?

Ahh, women! I never met one yet that was half as reliable as a horse!

I'd say I am partial to women.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

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

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

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

I'm quite a chauvinistic person.

I've always liked men better than women.

The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior: she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Women are simply not endowed with the same measure of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed.

I have never met a woman … whom I would trust with combat leadership…. The Naval Academy is a horny woman’s dream.

I don't fear being judged as a misogynist.

In this business, certainly it's a lot crazier for women than it is for men, but there's such a thing where there's a lot of judgment on the way you look and on your body.

I think that a big shame of how women are approached in business is they're oftentimes looked to for perspective and not implementation.

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry is difficult at times. I've had people offer to help me, but it's hard to know who to trust.

Never trust the judgment of an enthusiastic man; never trust the promises of a lazy one.

It's hard to get yourself into a position where someone will trust you to direct a film anyway, whatever sex you are. Certainly in England, the film set is a very male preserve. There's a lot of very rough looking men pushing equipment around that don't want the gaffer to be a girl.

They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against a man. There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.

There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.

If I cannot trust someone's judgment, I cannot ask others to do so, and I would not place him at the head of my political operation.

I had no reason to doubt that brains were suitable for a woman.