Allison Pearson Quotes

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

Women cannot complain about men until they start gettting better taste in them.

When women do take on traditionally male subjects, certain male colleagues can seem affronted that a woman has dared to trespass on their subject. I could given you dozens of examples, but here's one: Max Hastings's review in the 'Sunday Times' in 2009 of Miranda Carter's book 'The Three Emperors'.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

A high-powered, successful woman doesn't necessarily have the same support behind her that a man in that position would. Plus, she's expected to be a domestic goddess, as well as the best wife, mother, friend, and lover. But it's not just in politics: you see it in acting, too, and in journalism.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

On the whole, I have quite a low opinion of men.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

I've definitely had my struggles with the male species, as I'm sure most girls have.

I had such a lack of respect for women that I just treated them as a hobby, trying to live up to the supposed image of Jack Nicholson and all those guys who were womanizers.

Once, I was going to a film event, and someone told me not to wear high heels to it. They said that it might intimidate the men. For some reason, I was ready to take their cue, but about an hour later, something in my head started ringing, and I thought, 'That is the worst advice anybody's ever given me.'

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.

My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'

It is close to impossible to find a man who can bear with a woman, who is a notch above or equal to him. Such men are still not there in this world. It is like we will always be facing trouble in our lives.

With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.

The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

The left-wing thinkers and intellectuals have been more misogynist with me than the army. They can't accept that a young woman is able to think, and they underestimate the intellectual work and study I might have done. They ask who is the man behind me.

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.