Thomas Pynchon Quotes

Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all.

I'm quite a chauvinistic person.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

The male domination and chauvinism of the comics form is either being wittily lampooned in 'Watchmen' or handily perpetuated, depending on whom you ask.

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

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.

I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

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

I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.

I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

Being a woman is really crap.

I'm not involved with the female world.

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.

I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

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

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.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.