Sherwood Smith Quotes

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

The relative positions assumed by men and women were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

When I was 11, I saw this ad for dish soap powder that said, 'Women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans.' I was so angry. I couldn't understand why it didn't say men as well.

Women belong in the bedroom and the kitchen, in that order.

I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the '50s, and coming home simply means watching television with a beer.

If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

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

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.

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

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. 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.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didn't get you very far, because there weren't too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldn't be both.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.