Quote #206659
No doubt exists that all women are crazy it’s only a question of degree.
W. C. Fields
About This Quote
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Interpretation
Attributed to W. C. Fields, the line trades on a broad, misogynistic stereotype for comic effect: it asserts a universal claim (“all women”) and then pretends to soften it with a mock-logical qualifier (“only a question of degree”). The humor, such as it is, comes from the faux certainty and the reduction of complex individuals to a single derisive category—typical of the caustic, contrarian persona Fields cultivated on stage and screen. Read today, it functions less as insight than as a period-flavored example of “battle of the sexes” wisecracking, revealing how comedic authority can be built through exaggeration and prejudice presented as common sense.




