Virginia Woolf Quotes

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.

When I hear the words 'Women should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen,' I think, 'What. A. Dream.' There are no negative connotations to it.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

Women cannot complain about men until they start gettting better taste in them.

Women who can, do. Those who can't become feminists.

When men call women ambitious they mean pushy.

Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.

You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.

If you yell about one woman, you're not a misogynist. If I yell about Michelle Bachman, that doesn't make me a misogynist. If I compare all women to Michelle Bachman, then I'm a misogynist.

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

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

Who laughs less than feminists?

Men often still expect women to be under their thumb.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.

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.

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

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.