Brooklyn Decker Quotes

I think there's always the whole expectation that men can age and look fine, and girls have to be all conscious. But guys can also keep their skin intact.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

Sadly, in any industry and in any work-related environment, females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection, whether that be skinny or pretty. It's a constant, in our society.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

In a way, a man's body is more beautiful than a woman's.

Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.

Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.

I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.

Old women should not seek to be perfumed.

You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.

I'm not saying it's easy, and it's definitely harder for women. Because there is definitely a double standard about gorgeous older men, and it's different for older women.

Men are attracted to youth and beauty; women are attracted to power.

I have so many girlfriends who are powerhouses: They have big careers, are fearless in traveling in third-world countries or a launching non-profit. But they won't text a guy for fear of being perceived as desperate. That is broken.

Culturally, there is often the expectation that women should be repelled by anything too ugly, too violent.

All this is expected from girls only - wear makeup and look beautiful. My guy friends don't always have to do their hair and makeup.

There's a lot of stupid men out there who feel like makeup is a betrayal of the truth, and that is so funny to me.

Men such as President Bill Clinton don't have trouble showing a warmth which works for him, but women in power seem hesitant to use their feminine charm in a man's world out of concern for appearing lightweight, manipulative, or needing to use it to make up for something that is lacking.

A woman needs to be put together more than a man. If she isn't, she looks like she's not up for the job. There's a different standard. Those are the rules, and I have to live by them.

It's hard for women every single day; we have to be nice, but not too nice, ambitious, but not too ambitious. It puts a lot of pressure on what we should and can be.

It's acceptable for men to act the fool. When women try, they're considered aggressive and opinionated.

When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?