Jake Weber Quotes

Women rule our lives, don't they?

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.

Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.

I don't understand why there needs to be a love interest to make women go see a film. I think society sort of makes us feel that way - that if you don't have a guy, you're worthless.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.

When you're the only girl in a family of men, you have to be pretty sassy.

But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home; that a woman should not aspire to achieve more than her male counterparts and, particularly, not more than her husband.

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.