Elbert Hubbard Quotes

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.

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes.”

When we get married or interviewed for a job or play professional sports or run for president of the United States, we encounter a whole set of standards and expectations. We can be shamed for an outfit that's too slutty, too dowdy, too pricey--take your pick. That's the burden women carry into the fitting room.

I've always been so confused about being a girl. Not in a Bruce Jenner way, just... there's that expectation where you walk into a room, and it's like, Is it OK to be a woman?' Or, you know, you're looking for your keys in the back of a cab, and sometimes the driver can treat you like you've had a lobotomy.

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

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

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.

If I were a guy, it would be, you know, just a different set of problems I have to carry along.

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

So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

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.

When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

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.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

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.