Jane Austen Quotes

The implications of likability are long-lasting and serious. Women adjust their behavior to be likable and as a result have less power in the world. And this desire to be liked and accepted goes beyond the boardroom - it's an issue that comes up for women in their personal lives as well, especially as they become more opinionated and outspoken.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.

I still have this image: I can't be controversial, I can't say things.

We're led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody's scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it's the power structure wherever you happen to be.

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

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

Well, I think mostly we're dressing for men.

If taking one-self seriously as a woman means committing to a life of grooming, pumicing, pruning and polishing one's exterior for the benefit of onlookers, then I may as well leave my unwieldy rucksack to the top of a bleak Scottish hill and make my home there under a stone, where I'll fashion shoes out of mud and clothes out of leaves.

People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.

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've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking.

I was like most teenagers. I wanted to look more conventional - you know, to just be the pretty girl in school.

A man must know how to act in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

A political woman loses her beauty within a year.

I always tried to fit in, so I was a cheerleader with the orange skin and white-blonde hair, and Hooters was part of that.

The point of privilege and the notion of mansplaining is that sometimes I definitely feel like I should shut up. That's it functioning. That's the notion of privilege functioning.

I am not at all particular about things like hair styles and colors. Especially with women, changing their hairstyle or color is a bit too commonplace, don't you think?

Men always like what the ladies like.

When you're in a friend circle, you all kind of talk the same way. And it's hard to do on-the-fly radio edits of yourself.

As female artists, we have to be constantly criticized for the way that we look, the way that we dress, on a whole other level that men don't have to face.

Women often try too hard to say what they think a man wants to hear, to like what he likes, to laugh at every joke, and get so nervous talking about themselves that nothing interesting comes out.

There's a lot of pressure on women to look in a certain way. It's not easy to live in a world that objectifies women.

I firmly believe that a big part of the obsession with women's thinness comes from the same place as male power fantasies.

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?