Bette Davis speaks candidly about gender roles and sexism in little-heard interview, 1963 — dangerousminds.net

“If men found out how to give birth to children they’d never propose again.” - Bette Davis Blank on Blank dug up—and made a short animation to—a delightful taped interview with Bette Davis being interviewed in her home by entertainment columnist Shirley Eder in 1963. Davis cuts through the bullshit and openly speaks her mind about gender roles, sexism in a male dominated workforce and marriage. I think men have got to change an awful lot. I think somehow they still prefer the little woman. They’re just staying way, way behind and so as a rule I think millions of women are very happy to be by themselves, they’re so bored with the whole business of trying to be the little woman, when no such thing really exists anymore. It just simply doesn’t. This world’s gone way beyond it. The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway. So if you ever run into that in either sex you’ve run into something very, very fine, I think.

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