Logan Browning Quotes

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

I think, so many times in society, women are expected to behave a certain way. You are raised to say 'sorry' and 'excuse me', and get out of the way.

We live in a culture that does not encourage women to be epic heroes of their own Big Stories but the mothers and lovers and wives and mistresses and muses and personal assistants, the femme fatales and fantasies and manic pixie dream girls, in someone else's Big Story, and this someone else is usually a dude.

I was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.

It's hard for women every single day; we have to be nice, but not too nice, ambitious, but not too ambitious. It puts a lot of pressure on what we should and can be.

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.

I think feeling responsible for stuff that goes wrong is an inherent part of being female.

I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not in a position to behave as badly, because you don't have the economic power.

I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

Why don't we focus on what Afghan women can do? They can cook, bear children and pray. As I recall, that was fine for our grandmothers.

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.

Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.

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

When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?

Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.

There is a sense that women are more anchored than men in our society.

In the 18th century, most people believed that God had ordained specific and different spheres for men and women relative to their roles in life. Some people still feel that way.

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

Partners and mothers allow men to get away with too much.

Society is still adapting to women being CEOs and professionals rather than homemakers. Because of this, the unfortunate outcome is that we feel we have to be successful at both - in the office and in the home. Striking that balance is different for everyone.

Patriarchy doesn't just make men out to be ogres. Women buy into the patriarchy as well, and women make those comments as well, like, 'Boys will be boys.' Women have to undo that stuff, too.

Patriarchy is so ingrained in our psyche, that most us propagate it in small ways even without realizing.