Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Quotes

Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it's just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I've found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.

Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.

I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education.

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world. Just because we got rid of the father of the nation in Egypt or Tunisia, Mubarak or Ben Ali, and in a number of other countries, does not mean that the father of the family does not still hold sway.

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.

Asian parents generally tend to channel their children, especially their daughters, into studying and not sport.

French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.

I personally always find something really scary about watching little girls learning to manipulate their dads by baby talking. Then they grow up and use the same technique on their boyfriends or husbands. That scares me because it's just so sick on so many levels.

The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.

None of my sisters are in the movies, nor are my nieces going to be. That's how Dutt 'sahab,' my dad, brought up the girls in the family, and I am just carrying his thought forward.

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business in copper and aluminum wire. He was very strict and he wanted me to work in the family business - for him, the worst thing was having a daughter who worked in fashion.

I'm very sensitive. Because my mum was my primary emotional caregiver growing up, I found myself being pinned into dresses, darting her dresses, choosing her high heels for the evening or what to wear. I'm very much a mommy's boy.

I wish my parents could have raised every man out there.

I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.

If you're going to have a male-dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.

I used to get so upset with my father. I'd ask him, 'Why do I have to be around all these women all the time?' But in time, I learned that was an advantage.

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.

No woman in Afghanistan is in business without support from either her husband or her father or her uncle, someone.

Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.