Benjamin Koldyke Quotes

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.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

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.

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.

While men pretend not to judge women for the way they look, we go to great lengths to pretend we don't care, either.

The way I feel seen by the opposite sex is sometimes really detrimental to me. I'm very aware of how I'm constantly being sexualized and objectified in their eyes which makes me feel worthless.

I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification…I think that word exists only with women because there are societal pressures for them to behave a certain way and to look a certain way. Someone put it to me once: Women are sex objects and men are success objects. That was really interesting to me.

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.

There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.

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.

It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the 'Barbie doll' roles.

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

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

An awful lot of female celebrities are very beautiful whereas a lot of male celebrities are not so hot.

The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

You can get a man's attention if you got a pair of boobs and a butt. I hate to simplify them down so much, but I think it's true.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.

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

I realized early on that I always hated girls who used their femininity to get what they wanted.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

Women have to show that tummy to stay noticed.

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.