Gayle Lynds Quotes

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

... to say that men are the only ones who can have this experience is ludicrous, and to say that for these reasons: "there will never be any really great women writers in the theatre," is equally funny because as a rule women know not only what men know but much that men will never know.”

We need to create a society where girls and women are getting the same encouragement and support to build their careers as the boys and men are. From the start.

I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.

In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that needs women.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who raised my awareness of what female authors were bringing to the table of contemporary fiction.

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into 'women's books' except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

There are certain things women are better at than men.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.