Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Women have to compensate more in the personality department in order to get the things that men get. And they don't have as much leeway for being divas or jerks.

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

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

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

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'.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.

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

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

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

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.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

It was not easy to get to where I am. My challenge is to learn to deal with the jokes that are common among men that I heard and continue to hear sometimes among men.

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

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

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of?

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

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.

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.