Nicole Hollander: Quotes about women

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

Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, pp. 212-213

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

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Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 48

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

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(p. 31)
Sylvia cartoon strip

“(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.”

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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

“(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."”

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Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 68

“(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.”

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Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p.169

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

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Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 26

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

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Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 89

“(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.”

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Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 28

“(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.”

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Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, pp. 198-199

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

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Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 24

“(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.”

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Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 21

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

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Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 31

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

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Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 23

“(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?”

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Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 9

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

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Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 206

“(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.”

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Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 67

“(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?”

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Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 25

“(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.”

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Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 55