Maureen Dowd Quotes

The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.

Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network. They have more companies they can get money from.

Wherever you find 'men together' - writing the rules, as at exclusive golf or other men's clubs, businesses, and lodges where they wear elaborate robes and funny hats - women are kept completely outside if possible and, when grudgingly admitted, to highly restricted areas or token status.

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

Like it or not, most things in this country are run by white males.

I'm not interested in classes ... Far be it from me to foster inferiority complexes among the workers by trying to make them think they belong to some special class.

… as long as men, even socialist men, even the best men in the world, make laws these will be to their advantage and to our disadvantage.

Am I the only one who exposes? Just because I don't have a godfather, or I'm not a star kid, I'm told that I expose. I don't care.

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton.

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

And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?

Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.

Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people can end racism.

When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though.

Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody.

We still have not been able to move into those positions in our country that are really directing traffic among that 1 percent, and that's where women have to break through.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

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

We've heard the excuses from those responsible for hiring that they don't want to take a chance on a new director. But the truth is that the industry hires new directors all the time; it's just that most of them are white males.