Nell Scovell Quotes

I've always been sure of my vision, but I've been in meetings where men have been talking about me like I'm not there... I've been told I should be a certain way, and I wondered if that would have been the case if I was a man.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

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

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.

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

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

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

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

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.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

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

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

If you're a man and you are confident and you are ambitious and strong, then you are a statesman and a leader. If you are a woman and you have those qualities, well, they have a not-so-flattering term for that.

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