Jeanine Pirro Quotes

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.

There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.

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.

What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I've worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you're not considered conventionally attractive, that also becomes an issue: you know, you're a feminist because you couldn't get a man.

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.

Men always want and love when women wear tight and fitted clothing, right? And you're like, 'Wow, she looks so beautiful.' And then you have men who dress like slobs, and you're like, 'What's the deal with these big and baggy suits.' It's pretty ridiculous.

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 am scared of stepping out of the house, because of what people will think of me. In our society, men and women are looked at differently anyway, and that's even truer if you are an actress.

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.

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.

If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care about.

A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.

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.

It seems women are expected to be so much more than men, which means we have to work that much harder. We're the ones under the microscope. We're expected to sound perfect. We're expected to look perfect all the time. We're expected to be style-setters, whereas the boys roll onto the stage in their jeans, T-shirts and baseball caps.

I understand, as the young, attractive woman in film, that there's always going to be people seeking out extra salacious things for you to do.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

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.'

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

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?'

Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.

Men are just jealous because they can't wear makeup.

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.