Nicole Hollander: Quotes about women

“(Man in bar) Can you imagine a world without men? (Sylvia) No crime, and lots of happy, fat women.”

Nicole Hollander

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, pp. 212-213

Women , Men , World , Imagination

“(Voice on television) Midol relives the special pain that women get (Sylvia) when they realize they picked the wrong man, again.”

Nicole Hollander

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 48

Women , Pain

“(Television) The insurance industry is perfectly willing to stop discriminating against women, if some other group would volunteer to take their place.”

Nicole Hollander

(p. 31)
Sylvia cartoon strip

Women

“(Television) If women want time off to bear children, they can't expect to be treated as equals. (Sylvia) Okay, give men time off to bear children.”

Nicole Hollander

Variant: (Television) If women want time off to bear children, they can't expect to be treated as equals. (Sylvia) Okay, give men time off to bear children.
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 26

Women , Men , Children , Time

“(First Bad Girl) The Southern Baptist convention decided that women should submit graciously to their husbands. (Second Bad Girl) Graciously? Seems like submitting would be enough. (First Bad Girl) Who wants submission with attitude? (Second Bad Girl) Even the IRS doesn't ask for "gracious."”

Nicole Hollander

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 68

Women , Girl

“(Man on television) Man is the hunter. Woman is the civilizing influence, and when women abandon that role, men become (Sylvia) Cranky, and start wars.”

Nicole Hollander

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p.169

Women , Men , War

“(Television) The brain is differently wired in men and women. (Sylvia) In men, the wires are loose.”

Nicole Hollander

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 26

Women , Men

“(Wicked witch hexing babies) Women of future generations will have undreamt of career opportunities. You two will use yours to despoil the environment.”

Nicole Hollander

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 89

Women , Future , Baby

“(Television) A recent study concludes that women over 40 have statistically as much chance of getting killed by a terrorist as of getting married. (Sylvia) And would rather.”

Nicole Hollander

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 28

Women , Study , Chance

“(Man in suit to Indian woman) Oh guru, ancient mother of the world, we men have been crippled. We have never learned how to feel; we don't even know how to cry. Oh my wise guru, can you teach me to cry? (Guru) Sure. No problem. Tomorrow I'll start you at a dead-end job, pay you at women's wages and then I'll throw in sole support of a pre-school child.”

Nicole Hollander

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, pp. 198-199

Women , Men , World , School

“(Television) Men are naturally more aggressive than women. (Sylvia) All the more reason to keep them locked up after dark.”

Nicole Hollander

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 24

Women , Men , Nature

“(First Bad Girl) Conservatives say gay marriage undermines the institution of marriage....(Second Bad Girl) The minute women got driver's licenses, marriage was doomed.”

Nicole Hollander

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 21

Women , Marriage , Girl

“(Television) Angry women beat up shoe salesman who posed as gynecologist. (Sylvia) I hate guys who do that.”

Nicole Hollander

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 31

Women , Hate , Shoe , Guy

“(Woman psychic) In June of 1987, men will begin talking about their feelings; women all over America will be sorry within minutes.”

Nicole Hollander

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 23

Women , Men , Feeling

“(Man in bar) I have the right to bear arms. It's in the Constitution. (Sylvia) I'm in complete agreement. I'd like to see a lot more women carry guns. [Pause] Cat got your tongue?”

Nicole Hollander

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 9

Women , Cats

“(Television) Women hold up half the sky. (Sylvia) Uh huh, but in a poor neighborhood.”

Nicole Hollander

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 206

Women

“(Second Bad Girl) Women who form relationships with murderers [in prison]. I don't get it. (First bad girl) Well, you know where they are at nights. (Second bad girl) At least, they're not lying on your couch watching TV.”

Nicole Hollander

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 67

Women , Girl , Lying , Night

“(Man in bar) How come only ugly women are for the equal rights amendment? (Sylvia) How come the guys who ask that question always have bad breath?”

Nicole Hollander

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 25

Women , Guy , Question

“(Televison) Spokesmen for the right wing of the Republican Party are tying to associate the Democrats with a so-called feminist agenda…that causes women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians. (Sylvia) Heavy schedule.”

Nicole Hollander

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 55

Women , Children