Tom Lehrer Quotes

I don't really think about male and female; if something's right for me, it's right for me, and it doesn't matter what it is - maybe that's what it took for me, a woman, to break down the doors.

Two chicks. I mean, ladies... ah - women, girls, whatever the term is. I'll get it. I've got it marked down somewhere.

I think that I was just on the cusp of the generation that was beginning to really challenge some of the assumptions about the role of women and the role of men on campus.

An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust.

Sometimes faggot is the right word. There's a trend in this country to avoid words: "We can't say that one anymore it's offensive."

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

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

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.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

I don't know what a world would be like if you do away with sexy images.

It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don't think that's true. I think that's one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.

Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.

I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.

I try to be as thoughtful as I can about everything that comes out of my mouth and not reinforce sexism.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

We're so politically correct; we take things so seriously.

Feminism is not only for women It's something everyone can participate in, and evolve together, as the first step in the right direction. I see feminism as a tool to achieve that balance and peace.

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.

I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.

The very same people who 40 years ago were saying that feminism was unnatural and unnecessary are now saying “Well, it used to be necessary, but it’s not any more.”