Sherwood Smith Quotes

Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work.

This is the problem today. Men and women have switched places. The woman now acts more like the man.

In my generation, if a man washes the dishes, the older women still tend to cluster around and coo and thank him and praise him. But if a woman washes the dishes, it's business as usual, even if both man and woman have tough office jobs.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as writers, we have to change.

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.

Women are not trained to be housekeepers, nor to be wives, nor to be mothers ...

As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.

I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

I love women. My life revolves around them.

It's not very hip to consider the plight of single women who yearn for something so old-fashioned as men.

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

Over my lifetime, women have demonstrated repeatedly that they can do anything that men can do, while still managing traditional women's work at the same time. But the same expansion of roles has not been available to men.

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.

I'm not big on women looking naive.

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?

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlours.

Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.