Will Rogers Quotes

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

The way the world sees women vs. men is a subject that really interests me.

Intellect is not sexed;... strength of mind is not sexed; and ... our views about the duties of men and the duties of women, the sphere of man and the sphere of woman, are mere arbitrary opinions, differing in different ages and countries, and dependent solely on the will and judgment of erring mortals.

Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.

He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any biblical injunction that the man should remain ever the doctor and the woman the nurse, and yet he felt as if a blasphemy had been committed.

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself.

Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'

Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.

It seems women are expected to be so much more than men, which means we have to work that much harder. We're the ones under the microscope. We're expected to sound perfect. We're expected to look perfect all the time. We're expected to be style-setters, whereas the boys roll onto the stage in their jeans, T-shirts and baseball caps.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize we have not only underestimated women, but also men.

There are some professions that culturally and sociologically take a long time to change, and because of that, there's still sexism in comedy audiences. We shouldn't blame them: I do it too. A woman comes on, and I feel slightly anxious. I'm a woman in comedy, and I do that; I think everyone does.

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.'

I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.

Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as writers, we have to change.

No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.

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

I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.

As a result of the feminist revolution, 'feminine' becomes an abusive epithet.