Lee Grant Quotes

Before Hillary-bashing became its own thing, she was subjected to the standard-issue woman-bashing used on every powerful woman in Washington.

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

When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

I am absolutely stunned how the Democrats were able to somehow say that the Republicans had a war on women... What was the war on women?

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.

I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world—except a woman-governed world.

Look, does gender play a part in how people perceive Hillary Clinton? Yes. But it's also not the reason people criticize her about the emails or Benghazi.

When I governed, the overwhelming mindset of the media was to dismiss out of hand any suggestion that anything happening to me was in any way related to gender.

'Commander in Chief' became a show not about why we should have a woman president but why we should not have a woman president.

Why is being a female having an agenda any more than being a misogynist - which David Mamet most certainly is?

Women all live a double standard, but this is actually sort of a beautifully grotesque parody of it. There's a weird kind of joy that I have in seeing [Hillary Clinton] trounce this essence of male bullshit.

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.

It still annoys me when I read really derogatory things about how a woman looks because you would usually not read these things about a man, and that still has the potential to put women off public life.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

I've always liked men better than women.

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

It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.

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

In the U.K., we have a paper called 'The Daily Mail,' which is quite misogynist. And every day, it just writes pieces about: 'Women, you're going to die now! Women, here's shoes that give you cancer! Women, just hate yourselves!'

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

It's quite clear to me I'm not a sexist and I'm not a misogynist.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.