George A. Moore Quotes

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

Women have to compensate more in the personality department in order to get the things that men get. And they don't have as much leeway for being divas or jerks.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

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.

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.

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

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

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

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?

A gender line... helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

I've always been sure of my vision, but I've been in meetings where men have been talking about me like I'm not there... I've been told I should be a certain way, and I wondered if that would have been the case if I was a man.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

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.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didn't get you very far, because there weren't too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldn't be both.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.