Howard Jacobson Quotes

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

When guys talk about sex, eyebrows don't get raised. It's different for girls.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

Being a woman is really crap.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?