Gail Collins Quotes

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

I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

As a result of the feminist revolution, 'feminine' becomes an abusive epithet.

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

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

I'm not involved with the female world.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

I have to tell you, though, the sexism in late night talk is so profound.

When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

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

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world—except a woman-governed world.

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

Control of females is mandatory for a successful, civilized, humane and compassionate society

I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic. And emotional.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men. They are far superior and always have been.