Marlo Thomas Quotes

If you are a man, you have to be like Joe McCarthy to be called “ruthless”. For a woman, all you have to do is put somebody on hold.

I feel like women are asked their age more than men.

Women must pay for everything…. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but also, women get more notoriety when they crash.

Men don't wear high heels, and they don't make allowances for women who do. Tottering down the corridors of power in beautiful but crippling stilettos telegraphs your preference for style over substance.

When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

I think women get labeled a lot as being crazy. But I think men make us crazy.

Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?

We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's almost never used for boys - and that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce.

There's a lot of good roles for men, always, and for very young girls. But for women, not so many.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

It's more acceptable for guys to get old and craggy and become wonderful character actors as they get older, but women aren't allowed to get old and craggy in the same way.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

We are still uneasy with women and power…For a man to be ruthless, he has to be like Joe McCarthy. For a woman, she just has to put somebody on hold.

You'll have a guy, and they're aging however they're aging, and nobody really cares. If you're a woman, it's different.

A man can add to his sexuality by being funny, whereas a woman can diminish hers. I don't know why that's the case: it's completely unfair.

Female-driven shows have to be every single thing and are constantly criticized in a way that male-driven shows are not.

When men age, their love interests get younger. It doesn't stop them from doing different genres of stuff. As women age in film, you know, they go from the woman in charge to the mother, the grandmother... off a cliff somewhere.

One of the things I noticed is that if you look up the word ambition you will see that when it's applied to women, it's almost always negative. If a woman is ambitious she's cutthroat, she's seen as more unpleasant. Whereas when its attached to a man it's far less negative.

The only problem is, that the musicians, the guys, their careers can go from the time they're 18 'till they're 50 years old and when they get wrinkles, they're 'character lines.' But when girls get 'em, they're wrinkles!

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

My biggest struggle being a woman in the workforce has not only been with my mother, my grandmother, and a lot of my girlfriends. When I'm working late hours, I'm almost punished for it by them. It's almost absurd that I would prioritize work over catching up with my girlfriends. If I were a man, that would just come second nature.