Mary Barnett Gilson Quotes

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?

If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and publicly disdained.

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior: she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

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

Biology is destiny only for girls.

Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?

Believe it or not, I don't collaborate with women, though my agent and editor are both females. For the most part, they do little editing on my characters.

... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong overcome the superstitions that still engulf women.

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

'Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.

There are certain things women are better at than men.

I don't think women are dumb.

I think human beings have a really broad spectrum of traits, and I almost feel implicated when we say, 'Men are like this, women are like this.' Nobody was telling me, 'Don't get dirty, don't play in the mud, girls don't do that.'

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

I hadn't thought that women were particularly dangerous golfers. Could that be the reason that the Augusta National Golf club refuses to take down its 'No Women Allowed' sign?

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.

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

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

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

I don't know why there is a discrimination between women and men entrepreneurs. Those who are doing their job should just be seen as professionals and not women or men.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.