Michele Bachmann Quotes

I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

I am not specifically interested in so-called women’s questions, as all national positions are sexless

Before Hillary-bashing became its own thing, she was subjected to the standard-issue woman-bashing used on every powerful woman in Washington.

Look, does gender play a part in how people perceive Hillary Clinton? Yes. But it's also not the reason people criticize her about the emails or Benghazi.

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.

Some people would say having a feminist perspective is political, but I don't think it is. I think it's just having a female perspective.

When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.

One of the weirdest questions I've gotten on the campaign trail is, 'Are you going to run as a woman?' I'm like, 'Do I have an option?' Like, what does this mean?

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

After Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, we were told, 'She's the first female speaker of the House, so whether we like it or not, we've got to handle this with kid gloves. Don't go after Speaker Pelosi. You can go after other people, but you'll be branded as mean and evil if you go after the first female Speaker of the House.'

Are Republican women politicians more 'feminine' than Democratic women politicians?

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus making it rather difficult to ignore when studying the human condition!

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

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

I'm not a feminist.

I don't remember a single day during the time I was minister of gender, foreign minister, vice-president and president when I saw anything on the part of the men that indicated they were undermining me.