Kami Garcia Quotes

I don't hold doors for women. I'm not sure I really differentiate between men and women, in my door-related activities. Do women really care about this issue?

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

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

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.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

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

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of?

Women always go through the door first. Even ardent feminists would admit it's nice. It's not an acknowledgment of women as the weaker sex; it's perhaps an acknowledgment of women as the stronger sex.

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

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

We're not accustomed to giving women the space to express the full range of emotions and flaws that men are permitted. Anger and aggressiveness aren't part of the scale of what is acceptable behavior in women, whereas men - in reality and in fiction - are allowed a much fuller range of emotion.

A woman's desire is either terrifying, or it's ignored.

There's still a narrower band of acceptable behavior for women than men.

I've been called pushy and aggressive and all the negative words that are rarely applied to men with the same traits. But it doesn't bother me.

There's a big difference between chauvinism and chivalry.

It's acceptable for men to act the fool. When women try, they're considered aggressive and opinionated.

I don't see a point in advertising my marital status when men don't. Completely ridiculous.

If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better!

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.

[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.

I generally don't like living in a world where being what a man is, is a horrible thing; and no matter what a woman is, is a wonderful thing.

A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.

I think basically most men are misogynistic.