Holly Willoughby Quotes

Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.

People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.

A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.

I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.

The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.

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

People think you can't be clever if you have breasts.

From being on a panel show, they always need the blonde airhead sat in a corner they can make fun of, and I'm here to go, 'No, we're not the punchline.'

There's an ingrained mentality in our culture that women aren't as good. Other places, it doesn't exist.

Misogyny is not something that you want to be a part of.

I had become a victim of people's perceptions. It's not just me, I think all actresses are.

I really feel like females have to go 50 extra miles. Not just one - 50 extra miles to be accepted or taken seriously.

Sexism definitely exists - you see that in all walks of life.

There is part of you as a female - no question - that feels like you have to be overprepared and outwork the men because people are automatically going to look at you and say, 'Well, you didn't play football,' or, 'You don't know what you're talking about,' because you are a female.

Being a female guitar player back in school wasn't great, and I had to change schools so many times. The male drummers and bass players thought it was cool, but male guitar players said, 'It's a guy's thing. You should be doing something else, like playing the harp.'

It happens a lot that women have to play the girlfriend role, which isn't as three-dimensional as the male role.

Women should not fall back on 'sexism' unless they really feel that it's happening.

I'd always thought leadership was a CEO or president or person in a position of power. And honestly, to me, that meant a man - because that's what I was reading about in history books growing up.

Nobody that I know would ever say that I'm sexist.

Coming to new environments, people look at you and think, 'what's this blonde lady doing, she thinks she can drive a racing car.' But you work hard, keep your head down and show that you're actually capable.

Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

I think that sexism existents everywhere.

I don't want there to always be this stigma of the "female" artist. "Oh, what does it feel like to be a female doing something?" That hurts me.

It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made.

Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's questioned.