Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes

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.

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

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.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

It is very creditable when a woman gets into politics. She does this at the expense of responsibilities toward her home and family and should be lauded for this.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.

I grew up in a home where I was literally told from a young age, 'No daughter of mine will ever wash a man's socks,' and I am pleased to say I never have. It was made clear that whatever I wanted to do I should aspire to, regardless of my gender.

There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.

When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.

When I was made CEO of Reynolds the first time, someone asked me what it was like to be a female CEO. But I said, 'I don't know what its like to be a male CEO, so I can't really answer that question.'

Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality.

The women I know are smart, interesting people who aren't just there to service the men's stories, so I don't know why our art continues to do that.

Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.

There are some voters who are rather traditional and have some reservations about electing a woman leader. But the younger generation are excited to have a woman leader for the country. They think it is somewhat trendy.

The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor am I.

The progress of man has never been impeded by preconceived ideas regarding his abilities, his proper interests, and his appropriate activities. Woman has always been so hampered.

Both the Army and the Navy are closed to our sex. Nor, again, are we allowed to be members of the Stock Exchange. Thus we cannot use either the pressure of force or the pressure of money. We cannot preach sermons or negotiate treaties. Then again, although it is true that we can write articles or send letters to the press, the control of the press … is entirely in the hands of your sex …

I don't know why women aren't allowed to have the same sort of breadth and scope and flaws of men.

Until feminists started wailing about the female's passivity, submissiveness, and something called 'victim status,' I had no idea women were such doormats. My childhood was populated by Eleanor Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, Pearl Buck, Marie Curie, Clare Boothe Luce, and the Duchess of Windsor.