Rita Rudner Quotes

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

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

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I've worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you're not considered conventionally attractive, that also becomes an issue: you know, you're a feminist because you couldn't get a man.

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.

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 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.

Whether you're writing television or movies, at some point you're going to encounter a male executive or investor who's going to say, 'I don't like that woman. She's unlikable.' And often, it's literally for being a regular human woman as opposed to an attracting human woman.

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

Female comics cannot dress provocatively on stage.

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.

My God, must I always wear a low-cut dress to be important?

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.

A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.'

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

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

You can get a man's attention if you got a pair of boobs and a butt. I hate to simplify them down so much, but I think it's true.

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

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

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

Why do women always get pointed at for their bodies?

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

On the whole, I have quite a low opinion of men.