Lucille Ball Quotes

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

I listen to feminists and all these radical gals - most of them are failures. They've blown it. Some of them have been married, but they married some Casper Milquetoast who asked permission to go to the bathroom. These women just need a man in the house. That's all they need. Most of the feminists need a man to tell them what time of day it is and to lead them home. And they blew it and they're mad at all men. Feminists hate men. They're sexist. They hate men - that's their problem.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.

I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in the U.S. I feel that successful American women are tougher than Swedish women - they create their space.

Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

I think that Saudi women are very powerful. And I think that Saudi men are the greatest support to Saudi women.

I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism' because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood.

I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.

Women must try to do things as men have tried.

Every now and then I am reminded that even though the need for being a feminist is gradually disappearing in this country, we haven't quite reached the millennium.

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.

Women are inferior to none.

I don't consider myself a feminist, but boy, I won't lay down and play dead, ever.

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

Young girls getting into feminism.

I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.

the point of feminism ... is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated - and enormously effective - efforts to dress it up in greasepaint and turn its proponents into gargoyles.

When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry.

I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge.

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.