Maureen Dowd Quotes

A lot of newsrooms have thought very carefully about how they cover race. I don't think the same conversations have gone on regarding women.

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true.

The people, as much as it's fun to hate us, they need us. They need good, strong, skeptical journalists to be covering whoever it is - whether it's Barack Obama or President Donald Trump.

Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.

Even though I don't agree with either Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann on virtually anything, I do think the unique scrutiny - because of their gender and highlighting the potential conflict between them is a product of the media's desire for juicy storylines. I think it's inappropriate.

In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.

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

When news comes out, it ought to be reported. There shouldn't be a moratorium based on legitimate news, just because it may or may not affect one candidate or the other. That's just absurd.

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.

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?

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.

In the U.K., we have a paper called 'The Daily Mail,' which is quite misogynist. And every day, it just writes pieces about: 'Women, you're going to die now! Women, here's shoes that give you cancer! Women, just hate yourselves!'

The front pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times are very important in shaping what other people think. They're like writing a memo to the White House.

To a newspaperman, a human being is an item with the skin wrapped around it.

The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news.

The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.

Some people will say that words like ‘scum’ and ‘rotten’ are wrong for Objective Journalism — which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place. He looked so good on paper that you could almost vote for him sight unseen. He seemed so all-American, so much like Horatio Alger, that he was able to slip through the cracks of Objective Journalism. You had to get Subjective to see Nixon clearly, and the shock of recognition was often painful.

I've made a five-minute video on 'The Battering of Hillary Clinton.'

In this industry there's this ridiculous connotation with women shows that's it's got to be difficult, and it's not true.

You can't ignore the obvious. Women after a certain age are believed to be good for nothing in the entertainment field, especially in the Latin world.

When I governed, the overwhelming mindset of the media was to dismiss out of hand any suggestion that anything happening to me was in any way related to gender.

In the beginning, all of us got 'women type' stories. Like covering the first lady instead of the president.