Sally Struthers Quotes

Female comics cannot dress provocatively on stage.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

I've been constantly under male gaze. In our movies, women are constantly objectified.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.

Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.

If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.

It's a cliche, but Americans are puritanical. In their movies, they are scared of sex, but they overindulge in violence. I could have cut a G-rated version of 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' that would have pleased the American ratings board, but it would have been five minutes long.

Prim and proper white women, I like what I see.

To be honest, I really don't like being the sex object.

You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.

I think that the enormous emphasis on violence and sex, and in particular violent sex, may not make rapists of us all, but it predisposes us to accept a kind of world in which these things happen.

Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists, and that’s all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws and their codes.

I saw women that were repressed. When they're in classes with young men, they shut up all the time. They're laughed at if they have unusual ideas. They have to be sexy; then, they can't really think.

Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.

So often, women are there just to be looked at and be objectified for the titillation of the male audience.

As female artists, we have to be constantly criticized for the way that we look, the way that we dress, on a whole other level that men don't have to face.

Nobody wants to see a woman onscreen who is a wreck. That is pure, unadulterated, systemic misogyny.

I enjoyed showing a bit more leg in the last few stories. It was good fun, but it can be quite sexist. But it doesn't worry me personally all that much.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want.

Most men somewhere in their psyche are still dragging women around by their hair. It's terrible. I have two daughters, but even before my kids were born I always thought that it was terrible.

It was exactly the same on the South Park movie really too. There's lots of violence in that too, but it always came down to anything sexual... They don't care about anything else.

I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.

When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'