Cindy Crawford Quotes

The minute you step into a job where you have to be at all tough and assertive, that's when the mischief happens. And you're not allowed to be assertive and feminine.

I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bonus, not a requirement, for men in the same position.

In general, the threshold for a woman becoming worried at how she's coming off in terms of asserting her power, that threshold is continually lower than it is for men.

I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.

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

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

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

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

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

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Women usually don't want to work as hard as a man.

It's not easy casting the men. You have to go gingerly, but you have to approach the right man at the right time because men don't want to play second fiddle to a woman. That's the truth.

Seeing a woman project the kind of aggression that you have to project as a comic just rubs me wrong.

I have played a lot of roles in my career where I'm the sexual interest. I'm always having to fight that.

I've been on the 'Logan' movie set, which is a 300-strong crew of basically men. They had arms thicker than my thighs stuck together.

I've never found it any tougher being a woman than a man, but I've always been the boss.

When a woman stands up and is strong and commanding, she's called bossy. When a man does the same thing, people say, 'They're strong.'

You have to work hard as a woman for people to take you seriously.

Where a man is forceful, a woman is shrill.

I suddenly became an unprofessional tantrum queen but people tend to forget that we associate these terms only with actresses. So many times, actors report late to the sets or don't even show up. But most women will tell you how we don't even have the luxury to be five minutes late.

Endless books claim that the brains of men and women are wired differently. They have titles such as 'Why Men Don't Iron' and set out to convince us that women are somehow biologically suited to getting the creases out of clothes while men peruse maps.

When women say no, they are immediately seen as selfish and not team players.