Christina Ricci Quotes

I've always been so confused about being a girl. Not in a Bruce Jenner way, just... there's that expectation where you walk into a room, and it's like, Is it OK to be a woman?' Or, you know, you're looking for your keys in the back of a cab, and sometimes the driver can treat you like you've had a lobotomy.

Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?

The sad thing about our society is that women are put in one of two categories. You're either in the beautiful category and you're seen as sexy and beautiful, or some version of that, or you're put into another category... The latter category affords women the opportunity to be smart, funny, independent, mean, strong, intelligent and opinionated. We take them seriously as politicians, if they fit into that latter category. We respect their opinions more and give them higher expectations. That latter category is what allows female actors to be characters.

You act like there are two kinds of girls,' she said. 'The smart ones and the ones that boys like.

As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so.

So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

I don't like the term 'chick flick.' I think it denigrates a movie. It has overtones of talking down to women, like they are second best.

Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didn't get you very far, because there weren't too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldn't be both.

If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and publicly disdained.

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

Men are born privileged in the scale of things - I'm generalizing, but it's true. Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.