Molly Ivins Quotes

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

I have to tell you, though, the sexism in late night talk is so profound.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.

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

I'm not involved with the female world.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

I think basically most men are misogynistic.

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.

I'm quite a chauvinistic person.

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

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

I've always liked men better than women.

It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.

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

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do.

I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world—except a woman-governed world.

[Referring to Jesse Jackson:] ... one of that machismo group.

It is better to be a male for one day than a female for ten

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men. They are far superior and always have been.

I would consider myself one of the least misogynistic men in the country - if anything, just the opposite.

Sexism is alive and well in politics, as it is in all industries.