Matilda Joslyn Gage Quotes

If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didn't get you very far, because there weren't too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldn't be both.

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

Every male chauvinist was some woman's son.

The result of coeducation shows clearly that there is no mental inferiority on the part of girls.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

I was used to being the only woman in everything... I didn't even think about it. Men were my role models - there's nothing wrong with that.

People hold my father in very high esteem, but what was amazing was that nobody looked at me as a woman; I was never made aware of the fact that I am a woman.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.

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

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

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.

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

In my generation, if a man washes the dishes, the older women still tend to cluster around and coo and thank him and praise him. But if a woman washes the dishes, it's business as usual, even if both man and woman have tough office jobs.

Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.