Ellen Page Quotes

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

It was not easy to get to where I am. My challenge is to learn to deal with the jokes that are common among men that I heard and continue to hear sometimes among men.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.

On the whole, I have quite a low opinion of men.

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.

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

I've always been sure of my vision, but I've been in meetings where men have been talking about me like I'm not there... I've been told I should be a certain way, and I wondered if that would have been the case if I was a man.

With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.

Men can be men and still get excited about other men kicking a ball around and they're never mocked, whereas it's easy for women to take mocking on board, to be belittled. Because we're used to it.

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

I never say 'nagging.' I think that 'nagging' is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

The left-wing thinkers and intellectuals have been more misogynist with me than the army. They can't accept that a young woman is able to think, and they underestimate the intellectual work and study I might have done. They ask who is the man behind me.

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Whether you're writing television or movies, at some point you're going to encounter a male executive or investor who's going to say, 'I don't like that woman. She's unlikable.' And often, it's literally for being a regular human woman as opposed to an attracting human woman.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

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

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

Sometimes I try to sell shows with a female lead to networks, and that isn't something that's been a proven formula for them, so they reject it. I do feel like men get the funniest roles in movies.