Anna Quindlen Quotes

I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.

I don't agree with beauty contests. I did it one time. It wasn't embarrassing being Wonder Woman; it was embarrassing walking around on stage in a bikini. It was ridiculous, stupid, and humiliating.

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.

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

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

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.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

I like women. I like them so much, I think every man should own two.

We live in a culture that does not encourage women to be epic heroes of their own Big Stories but the mothers and lovers and wives and mistresses and muses and personal assistants, the femme fatales and fantasies and manic pixie dream girls, in someone else's Big Story, and this someone else is usually a dude.

I always joke that I'm a feminist with a boob job.

Donald Trump, who surely has lots of high-stakes issues on which to focus, is consumed with the appearance of women.

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.

I have tremendous respect for women. I love them. I don't know why they want to step down.

Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

... while our men seem thoroughly abreast of the times on almost every other subject, when they strike the woman question they drop back into sixteenth century logic. They leave nothing to be desired generally in regard to gallantry and chivalry, but they actually do not seem sometimes to have outgrown that old contemporary of chivalry--the idea that women may stand on pedestals or live in doll houses,... but they must not furrow their brows with thought or attempt to help men tug at the great questions of the world.

It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than (one) film.

I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem.

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world. . .

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

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

Can I just say here how much I hate the word 'pamper'? While pretending to celebrate and indulge women, it actually implies that their bodies are so revolting that even their 'me time' must be dedicated to turning them into living dolls if potential suitors are to be prevented from running screaming in horror.