Karen DeCrow Quotes

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

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

For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.

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

In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.

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

Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Women are not by nature inferior to men...

Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.

Men and women aren't the same. And they won't be the same. That doesn't mean that they can't be treated fairly.

I'm saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.

Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

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?

I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.