Defects Quote by Rebecca West

I think the defect actually lies with male artists. Male artists often border on idiocy, while it's important for a woman not to be…

— Georg Baselitz

Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the worst enemy of woman; they can even grow into a positively demonic passion that exasperates and disgusts men,…

— Carl Jung

“Not only is the actual word "hysteria" gendered — it once referred to an exclusively female disease, a mental illness thought to be caused…

— Sady Doyle

It's "a 'disorder of "assumption"' - the notion that their maleness or femaleness is different than what nature assigned to them biologically.

— Rush Limbaugh

Sometimes, there can be a slightly condescending assumption that anything unlikable about a female character is a mistake, as if they're a contestant in…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion

— Simone de Beauvoir

What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.

— Lynne Truss

We only see female protagonists who are likeable, with one cute flaw, such as adorable clumsiness. I'm fed up with it.

— Catherine Reitman

I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.

— David Sedaris

I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions.

— Helen Rowland

When a woman creates an unlikable character, a lot of people think it's a mistake.

— Karin Slaughter