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I think women are excellent social critics.

I've never had any problem with criticism. I've given a lot, and I've copped a lot. But I believe I've got a role to play by insisting that women be judged by their contribution - not somebody's view of what they should be about.

The thing I will say is that probably culturally, women are treated differently, which means, I think, you're criticized more, you have to listen a little bit more, you have to justify yourself.

If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.

Look at history; all the interesting women were deeply flawed.

Some critics have been very harsh. That's okay. I like honest criticism.

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.