Loretta Reynolds Quotes

Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.

Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.

I don't think 50-50 relationships exist. Men have an incredibly variety of options. It's much harder for a woman to do both things. I think traditional relationships work best.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

I literally couldn't get anyone to hire me. Having a woman do sports was seen as too risky.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?

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

Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

Women are the harshest critics of other women.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.

It seems women are expected to be so much more than men, which means we have to work that much harder. We're the ones under the microscope. We're expected to sound perfect. We're expected to look perfect all the time. We're expected to be style-setters, whereas the boys roll onto the stage in their jeans, T-shirts and baseball caps.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.