Fran Lebowitz Quotes

Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.

My rocking out didn't make me particularly popular with the boys or girls. It wasn't cute or feminine. I was more of a...weirdo.

Why can men be boys all of their lives, but we women must grow old while we are yet young?

I am such a tomboy. I grew up fighting with boys, mainly - beating up boys, actually.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.

I don't really relate to certain blokey men who just want to talk about blokey things. I never really know what to say and I always feel I have to act blokey in order to have them not say, 'You're a weirdo.'

Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.

We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and ballet slippers on their covers, war machines and glittering gowns.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

I was very much a tomboy. I just couldn't do the pink ballet tutus.

It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys.

A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.

You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.

People assume that I'm girly. But people who know me say I'm more boyish.

I grew up playing soccer with the boys - quite far from reading magazines.

We're really taught to be followers from a very young age - men lead and women follow.

I hate to say it, but one of the worst things you could be called when I was younger was unfeminine.

It's not at all a far jump to think that overall perceptions of gender - and what is and is not important in gender roles - would carry over from life to fiction.

People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.

My general idea of the world is that I'm not different at all because I'm a girl. So I get blindsided sometimes because I forget that that's a thing.