Lynn Coady Quotes

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

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.

Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

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.

I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men. But where I draw the line, what I absolutely won't do, is the lady who plays bridge in the afternoon!

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you're not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you're not strong, they're like, 'Oh, no, no, no.'

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

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.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

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

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

I have friends who have daughters and there's times I think I'm glad I have boys instead of girls.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

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.

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

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?'

I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

Women blame men for their own singlehood.

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

A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it's not weird. But if a man does it, it's very disturbing. The way I'd describe it is like this: I have been allowed inside the house of womanhood, but I feel that they wouldn't let me in any of the interesting rooms.

I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.