Fiorello H. La Guardia Quotes

I don't believe in paying for sex. Which is why I'll never again pay for a woman's dinner.

Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work …. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should pay for right to exist, to keep a position in whatever line, with sex favors. Thus it is merely a question of degree whether she sells herself to one man, in or out of marriage, or to many men.

Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should pay for her right to exist, to keep a position in whatever line, with sex favors. Thus it is merely a question of degree whether she sells herself to one man, in or out of marriage, or to many men!... The economic and social inferiority of woman is responsible for prostitution.

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

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 could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not.

Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

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

Once again, no one in charge had given any thought to the possibility that a woman would be involved.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

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.

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

I put sex in the Civil Rights Act.

The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

It often means that a woman is hired because she is pretty, regardless of her qualifications; that a woman's job security is eternally dependent on how well she pleases her boss, and he often thinks sexual companionship is part of the job description; and that women are fired because they have aged or they are too independent or they say 'no' to sexual byplay

Years ago, I worked in a newspaper office, and there were men that would have fits of temper, and it was just accepted that that's who they were, and everyone would laugh about it, but if a woman got upset or angry, something wasn't right: she was 'hysterical' or 'a little unhinged.' It didn't have the same sort of connotation at all.

Female-driven shows have to be every single thing and are constantly criticized in a way that male-driven shows are not.

When women do take on traditionally male subjects, certain male colleagues can seem affronted that a woman has dared to trespass on their subject. I could given you dozens of examples, but here's one: Max Hastings's review in the 'Sunday Times' in 2009 of Miranda Carter's book 'The Three Emperors'.