Carole Lombard Quotes

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

A political woman loses her beauty within a year.

There's a lot of stupid men out there who feel like makeup is a betrayal of the truth, and that is so funny to me.

There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave.

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

Sometimes when we think about femininity, we think also fragile. But I think you can be feminine and very strong. I think make-up goes with that femininity. I think it's a natural gesture for women and one they do more for themselves than for others.

I think if you want to be seen as an intelligent woman, you can't be someone who feels empowered and sexy. I just don't understand who makes these rules, and frankly, I'm not interested in them.

We're told that to be successful girls, we have to be small and quiet. Yet to be successful humans, we have to become big and have a voice. There's an inherent contradiction.

I really should learn to be more of a girl.

Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything? I'm just a woman and I love being a woman. If you're attractive then you can't be sexy, and you can't be intelligent? What is all of that?

I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens.

I think that it's nice when someone can go and look more exotic and do the girl-next-door thing as well.

I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliche. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves.

If you wear short skirts you get your femininity back.

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

A lot of times girls think they're funny, but they want to pretty at the same time, and if you want to be funny, you have to be willing to get ugly.

I've always been very girly.

It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.

Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself.

I'm not a type of feminist who is afraid to be sexy.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

Men are just jealous because they can't wear makeup.