Elizabeth Banks Quotes

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

I can act like a boy as much as I want, but when I wake up in the morning, I'm still a woman.

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.

Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.

There is a fundamental difference between men and women - women need romance, men need intrigue.

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

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

It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl.

I'm girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.

When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.

I believe that anything can be for men or women. I mean, I've worn a lace dress before!

In my experience, men are not necessarily less sensitive or compassionate than women are, and women are not necessarily any less aggressive or competitive than men are - as a matter of fact, often they are more so!

I love female company. I love men, but women are different.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

I feel totally female. I didn't compete with men and I don't want to look like a man! I love being a lady and dressing up and masquerading and wearing all the fineries. I'm breaking down the idea that the artist has to look poor, with berets.

I went to an all-girls school for part of high school, and the idea of boys was amazing to me; like, all I ever wanted to do was kiss boys and be around boys.

You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.

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.

I've always loved men.

The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.

I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction.