Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Our society really needs to take a better look at what we're selling, because I think women being empowered will be as beneficial to men as it is to us.

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

This is the problem today. Men and women have switched places. The woman now acts more like the man.

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for changes still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves

I think we would be stronger if half our countries and companies were run by women and half our homes were run by men.

I'm definitely a feminist.

Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.

I think now is our time. My mother was told by everyone that she had two choices: She could be a nurse or a teacher. The external barriers now are just so much lower. If we start acknowledging what the real issues are, we can solve them. It's not that hard.

Men are the ones who often juggle back and forth for power. It is the women who bring humanity to the table - an understanding that beyond the jobs that men are fighting for, there are people out there really waiting for you to do something for life to go on. The only way all of this can happen effectively is if women are at the table as active participants, not as silent observers.

I want to say one word to the men who are present. I fear you think the 'new woman' is going to wipe you off the planet, but be not afraid. All who have mothers, sisters, wives or sweethearts will be very well looked after.

I believe that women and girls today have to partner in a powerful way with men - with their fathers, with their sons, with their brothers, with the plumbers, the road builders, the caregivers, the doctors, the lawyers, with our president and with all beings.

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.

Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?

In the past a man was expected to give his seat on a bus to a woman. Today it would be much more courteous for that man to give her his job.

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

More women are becoming the men they wanted to marry, but too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry. That leaves most women with two jobs, one outside the home and one in it.

Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men

We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.

Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.

Over my lifetime, women have demonstrated repeatedly that they can do anything that men can do, while still managing traditional women's work at the same time. But the same expansion of roles has not been available to men.

I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

Women had to deal with the men's response when the women wanted more time out of the home; men now must deal with the women's response as men want more time in.