Jerry Lewis Quotes

When you look at the comedies that are out there, 99 per cent of the time, men are the heroes. It's often thought that a woman can't be funny, that women are supposed to be sexy, not funny.

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.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

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.

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.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

My God, must I always wear a low-cut dress to be important?

I don't like the term 'chick flick.' I think it denigrates a movie. It has overtones of talking down to women, like they are second best.

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.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home; that a woman should not aspire to achieve more than her male counterparts and, particularly, not more than her husband.

Hey, a woman changed her mind - what else is new?

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

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

I'll never forget when I was running, when I was knocking on doors for my first office as I served as a Cleveland city councilwoman and to have older men say to me, 'Can you do this and be a wife and a mother?' Excuse me? Women make the world go round. We multitask... But to have that kind of condescending question asked of me in modern times.

I'm so bored of reading scripts with these wonderfully complex male roles, yet the woman character just sits on the bed waiting for him to come home.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

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

The roles I used to be cast for were typically objectified women, so I was always being shown or spoken about through the lens of the guy.

I'm always surprised at the negative response to the women in my books who are openly ambitious or experience aggression.