Alice Roberts Quotes

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Men are mostly raised by women. Most men have not seen an authoritative woman since they were 8. They associate women in authority with childhood.

Women cannot complain about men until they start gettting better taste in them.

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.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

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

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.

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

Just because I'm a woman does not mean I have to deal with everything to do with food.

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

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Women blame men for their own singlehood.

I grew up in a home where I was literally told from a young age, 'No daughter of mine will ever wash a man's socks,' and I am pleased to say I never have. It was made clear that whatever I wanted to do I should aspire to, regardless of my gender.

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.

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

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.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in 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.

I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.

Parenting girls makes you quite gender-conscious - it's almost impossible to fight the power of pink. It's not such a terrible thing to want to be a princess when you're five, but it would be nice if there were some other options.

If I was a boy, nobody would care that I worked out six, seven hours a day when I was 9 years old, no? Why were people always saying 'poor little girl?' I liked to work out and always did more than I was asked to.