Gene Kelly Quotes

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

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.

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

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.

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

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

If we have a situation where a man is particularly graceful in a sport that rewards grace - say, for example, figure skating - why is it that we don't say to the man, 'Well, you're too feminine to compete?'... I don't understand why we don't find it offensive also to say to a women who's very strong, 'You're too masculine to compete.'

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

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.

I'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of?

Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

As a female, you are often being asked by directors to be warmer, softer, flirt more, smile more etc... None of those things are bad, and obviously we are capable of a variety of human behavior, but it gets really old having to play into somebody's stereotype or ideal.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.