Lauren Myracle Quotes

I think our nation cannot stomach the notion of a woman in sexual terms whatsoever: that we are so puritanical that we cannot dismiss the notion of sex from our minds when it comes to women.

A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to the domestic cliche of the woman.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend.

I've always been sure of my vision, but I've been in meetings where men have been talking about me like I'm not there... I've been told I should be a certain way, and I wondered if that would have been the case if I was a man.

Shrillness is not the inevitable curse of the fairer sex.

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'

A lot of times, I get asked, 'Do you feel you have a responsibility to young girls to be a role model?' I don't see that happening as much to guys. I feel like, just because I'm a girl, I'm supposed to take more responsibility? Is that how it works?

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

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

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

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.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

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

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

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

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

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

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.