Double-standards Quotes

Nobody scarce doth any good, yet they all agree in praising those who do. Indeed, it is strange that...

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstan...

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...

Women, for their part, are always complaining that we raise them only to be vain and coquettish, tha...

Why do you consult [women's] words when it is not their mouths that speak? Consult their eyes, their...

It galls me that seeking out the seedy, the sordid, the sexual, and the deviant is the expected (if ...

It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? I...

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade ...

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - a...

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

Beauty works perfect miracles. All inner shortcomings in a beauty, instead of causing repugnance, be...

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-s...

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And...

No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with w...

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the...

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself roun...

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her c...

A lot of performers, if they go to bed with a woman on the road, they think of her as a slut. As a p...

[N]o language has ever had a word for a virgin man.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice c...

[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they inven...

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest ...

The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a quest...

A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men whe...

In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "...

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his j...

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- o...

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to ma...

[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insistin...

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that th...

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' wh...