Richard Whately Quotes

Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women.

If you yell about one woman, you're not a misogynist. If I yell about Michelle Bachman, that doesn't make me a misogynist. If I compare all women to Michelle Bachman, then I'm a misogynist.

I think women get labeled a lot as being crazy. But I think men make us crazy.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bossy' and 'bossily competent' by a male journalist, and I thought, 'Gosh, 'bossy' is never used of a man.'

So many women characters are extensions of male fantasy.

From the time I was 20 and people would say, 'Chicks with Picks,' I hated it. It's not a genre, it's a gender.

I've gotten a lot of comments about how I look and I can't help but think, Is anyone listening to what I'm saying? If I were a guy, no one would be saying, 'Wow, look at those pants' or 'Look at those legs.'

Certainly anyone who complains of sexism is marked down as humourless.

I've always felt that feminism was just an excuse for ugly women to march.

It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.

That was exactly why people didn't want to give us any kind of life, because we were threatening their status quo, and they just didn't want to have room for girls playing rock 'n' roll. It bothered them. First, people just tried to get around it by saying, "Oh, wow, isn't that cute? Girls playing rock 'n' roll!," and when we said, "Yeah, right, this isn't a phase; it's what we want to do with our lives," it became, "Oh! You must be a bunch of sluts. You dykes, you whores." That's what it became. Then it became a name-calling contest.

Women tend to be categorized as Madonnas or whores.

I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them.

Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.

Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason.

Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason.

If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them.

Women love to be asked more about their clothes than their work. We're dolls; we made a wish to become alive.

I've always been so confused about being a girl. Not in a Bruce Jenner way, just... there's that expectation where you walk into a room, and it's like, Is it OK to be a woman?' Or, you know, you're looking for your keys in the back of a cab, and sometimes the driver can treat you like you've had a lobotomy.

Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.

It's such a shame that you were put in a category of a dumb blonde, but that's what they did in the '50s. You fought the system, but you didn't win.

When you see the way some people write women, especially in studio movies, it's like, 'Sorry! Sorry for being alive!' Women are so apologetic.