Jane Fonda Quotes

Women have to compensate more in the personality department in order to get the things that men get. And they don't have as much leeway for being divas or jerks.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

There's still a narrower band of acceptable behavior for women than men.

Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

Do I think I am being held to a different standard than a man who would be in this exact same race with the exact same story? Might be? Yes. But that’s reality.

There are so many more roles for men than there are for women.

It is obvious that discrimination exists. Women do not have the opportunities that men do. And women that do not conform to the system, who try to break with the accepted patterns, are stigmatized as odd and unfeminine.

I really feel like females have to go 50 extra miles. Not just one - 50 extra miles to be accepted or taken seriously.

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.

A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.