The Macho Response: Doris Lessing

"It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not.

"It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests.

"Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did."

- Feminist Writer (and Nobel Prize Winner) Doris Lessing, as reported in The Guardian

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"I blame my own sex vehemently,...it is women,...who make the decisions,...they have a problem,...and,..the whole thing is based on fantasy."

- Dame Helen Mirren, saying what too many women are too stubborn (and/or too out-of-touch with reality) to admit.

"If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president,...women are voting so stupidly, at least single women."

- Ann Coulter, author and political humorist, If Democrats Had Any Brains They'd Be Republicans

"I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement,...whatever type of behavior women are coming up with, it's claimed as a victory for feminism — doesn't matter how bad it is. We don't seem to go in very much for self-criticism."

- Doris Lessing, 2007's Nobel Prize winner for literature.