Angie Dickinson Quotes

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

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.

In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and cannot get the access that I get.

The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

God forbid that women have fantasies.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

There’s no more despised figure on earth than a woman who seeks power.

I used to be very interested in the history of women's rights in this country and in other countries. I tried to learn as much as I could about it, and more than anything, I would be called gay. It was phenomenal. But if a boy has something to say, he is appreciated; he's even popular. If a girl says something, it's instantly a threat.

Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend.

There's still a narrower band of acceptable behavior for women than men.

Let's distinguish between freedom and equality. The modern American woman may be more liberated sexually than her mother was, but I don't think she enjoys a bit more sexual equality. The American male continues to use her sexually for one thing: a means to the end of his own ejaculation.

Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.

When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry.

The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.

As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

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

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

I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.

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.

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

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

In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'

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