Erik Griffin Quotes

Women have been funny for years.

There always have been funny women.

I didn't think I was a humorless shrew in 'Knocked Up.' I think the women are just as funny as the men are in that movie.

When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don't think that's true. I think that's one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.

When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist…. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing

Quaker meetings were the first enclaves in American society in which women were encouraged to speak out in public

For more than six thousand years the history of woman has been one of hopeless sadness. She moved only to the clank of chains, and her vain desire for better and higher things could not find expression, for woman was by force of circumstances inarticulate. Detraction of one sex and exaltation of the other became a habit of mind expressed in law, in religion, in literature as well as in the ordinary activities of everyday life.

Every religion oppresses women. I talk about the Koran because I know this book best. It allows for torture and other mistreatment, especially for women. And I despise the Sharia laws. They cannot be changed. They must be thrown out, abolished.

Since there have been men and women, there have been funny women.

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

I have no problem understanding that women are interested in mascara and the Middle East.

In America, funny women are allowed to be glamorous and funny, but over here, you're not.

I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.

As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.

When you live in a leading lady's body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny.

Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of display it with a twinkle of the eye and not a guffaw. But there's no juice in that for me.

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

Ladies are honest. They're my motivation. They know what's funny, and the dudes just follow.

Every woman inspires me.

Women are the real architects of society.