Campbell Brown Quotes

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

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

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

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

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

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

I'll never forget when I was running, when I was knocking on doors for my first office as I served as a Cleveland city councilwoman and to have older men say to me, 'Can you do this and be a wife and a mother?' Excuse me? Women make the world go round. We multitask... But to have that kind of condescending question asked of me in modern times.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

One of the things I noticed is that if you look up the word ambition you will see that when it's applied to women, it's almost always negative. If a woman is ambitious she's cutthroat, she's seen as more unpleasant. Whereas when its attached to a man it's far less negative.

I can tell you what women love, and that's when people man-splain things to us about what women want and need.

Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women.

I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not.

I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.

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.

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.