Female Chauvinist Quotes

#1. Female Chauvinist Pigs is smart, alarming, and extremely funny. With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expos of sex and desire in contemporary America and an important cultural history. I'm giving a copy to my mother. And my sons.

Cathleen Schine

#2. Female Chauvinist Pigs don't bother to question the criteria on which women are judged, they are too busy judging other women themselves

Ariel Levy

#3. Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life's expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. The most important step in developing skillful speech is to think before speaking.

Allan Lokos

#5. When anxiety comes knocking on your door, don't invite it in.

E'yen A. Gardner

#6. Sometimes I wish that I could stop you from talking, when I hear the silly things that you say.

Elvis Costello

#7. The term 'glass ceiling' was coined in 1984. More than 20 years later, the ceiling has barely cracked. There isn't a single country in the world that has as many female as male politicians. In business, the situation is even worse. Its highest echelon - the board - remains a chauvinist's dream.

Noreena Hertz

#8. Brownstone building overlooking the East River. A bunch of BMWs and

Rick Riordan

#9. Even if you are a woman who achieves the ultimate and becomes like a man, you will still always be like a woman. And as long as womanhood is thought of as something to escape from, something less than manhood, you will be thought less of, too.

Ariel Levy

#10. A mother draws a map for her child and places herself at the center of it. Her death wipes that map clean. She leaves you knowing you must redraw it to survive and yet not knowing where to start.

Kate Kerrigan