Andrew Greeley Quotes

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

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

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

There are certain things women are better at than men.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

If I could have gotten my way at an early age, I would have entered the priesthood, but my mother informed me that I could not become a priest because I was a girl. It really was the biggest blow to my ego, because it was my calling. When she told me I'd have to be a nun, I looked at her and said, 'I'm not following anyone.'

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

I am interested in writing how women really feel, how they really think, and how they respond to men. I don't want men reading my books because they might find out too much.

I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!