Eleanor Catton Quotes

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.

If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.

When guys talk about sex, eyebrows don't get raised. It's different for girls.

I'm a woman, but I've been a sexist, too.

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

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.

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

When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.

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

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

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.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

When a man gets up to speak, people listen then look. When a woman gets up, people kook; then, if they like what they see, they listen.

If you're a man and you are confident and you are ambitious and strong, then you are a statesman and a leader. If you are a woman and you have those qualities, well, they have a not-so-flattering term for that.

People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.

When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

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

A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.