Estelle R. Ramey Quotes

Just because we're stupid doesn't mean everybody else was.

I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences.

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.

I never played a woman who was smarter than me.

I get accused all the time of having a big mouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do.

I know that women are smarter than men. I don't wanna sound like I'm on a bandwagon for chicks but I do love 'em, can't front. Women are smarter than men. I know I gotta lot of chicks up my sleeve but you guys are twice as good.

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for a woman to lay the least stress on any grievance; to plead even with justice any cause; in any way to speak consciously as a woman. And fatal is no figure of speech; for anything written with that conscious bias is doomed to death. It ceases to be fertilized.

What are we doing that for in the 21st century? Why on earth would we teach kids that girls are less important than boys? It just made no sense to me.

Men are not nearly as evolved as women are, nor as intelligent, evidently

How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister.

All these years I'd thought being a spy was challenging. Turns out, being a girl is the tricky part.

Guys don't seem to think this, but the stuff that girls talk about is more raunchy than what guys talk about in a football lockeroom.

A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.

The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.

Biological sex should not determine what we are capable of, what we aspire to, what we do in our life.

As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer. They don't do that with men - nobody says Picasso, the male artist. Curators call me up and say, "We want your work to be in a show about women artists," and I'm like, why? For Christ's sake, do we have to attach a gender onto everything?

Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.

The mind is not sex-typed.

I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life! That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains.

At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.

Men are cheaters. Women are not to be trusted. And most people are dumb.

An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.