Muriel Spark Quotes

People should realize women aren't just whores or virgins, I want to see women who are real human beings.

Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.

A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking of reproducing her own sex.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.

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.

I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of?

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.

Women are liked better when they lose.

There is a sense that women are more anchored than men in our society.

Have you ever seen a man darning socks? So therefore a woman cannot be a combat pilot.

We had a mother who could have been called a feminist. That's just how we were raised. Why do you have to go sulk off in some corner because you are a girl? What's the big deal?

I wish we lived in a world where how you looked or what you wore wasn't an issue for men or women, and it's by and large not an issue for men, so I wish it wasn't an issue for women, but it is.