Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes

There's nothing wrong with looking at a woman's kneecaps.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

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

As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look.

Certainly, I am writing as a 21st-century woman, so I am much more inclined to view her as a three-dimensional woman. I think we keep coming up with this stubborn problem of a woman being judged by her appearance rather than her accomplishments. We are much more inclined to ask: was Cleopatra beautiful?

Americans like fat books and thin women.

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.

It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.

We didn't take Charlize Theron seriously until she did 'Monster' and became physically ugly. I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful.

The standards by which a woman's appearance is judged on the news are different to men, there's no question about that. Our clothes are different, for starters, they're much more varied, they're commented upon, there's no question about that. But do you have to be really good-looking? I don't think that's true.

Women are blessed with lots and lots of extra ways to win or lose validation. If you're a woman, you'll be judged on your beauty and your wit and how often you smile. You'll be judged on how much hair you have in some places and not in others.

I always joke that I'm a feminist with a boob job.

There's a lot of stupid men out there who feel like makeup is a betrayal of the truth, and that is so funny to me.

There are the aesthetic pressures for a woman to be pretty and sexy, but not sexual or have desires beyond winning a guy's affections.

I used to get people criticizing me for drawing so many women with gorgeous idealized bodies, but I pointed out that I draw a lot of men with muscular bodies, washboard abs, and enormous wangs, and they never got criticized. So those criticisms have stopped.

Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think she's attractive to the opposite sex.

Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.

Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.