Anna Gunn Quotes

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior: she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Sexism is real.

There's no prize for being the best woman.

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

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.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

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

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

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

When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

We are still living with a double standard. I know it. Every woman I know knows it, whether you're in the media as a woman, or you're in the professions or business or politics.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.