Julie Klausner Quotes

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.

Women are allowed to exist in this very narrow lane, but as soon as you step out of that lane, people want to stone you.

It's hard for women every single day; we have to be nice, but not too nice, ambitious, but not too ambitious. It puts a lot of pressure on what we should and can be.

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

You know, the genders are different in how they approach things, and so I really think that women put a lot more guilt on themselves than need be.

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

Just because I'm a woman does not mean I have to deal with everything to do with food.

We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.

Women blame men for their own singlehood.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home; that a woman should not aspire to achieve more than her male counterparts and, particularly, not more than her husband.

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

Life's tricky for women because they have to make more choices than men. And yes, choice is good, but boy, you better be an expert choice-maker.

What does it mean, being a woman?

Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

There are certain restrictive parts of a woman’s constitution that that were given her by nature and which forbid us from applying the same standard of expectation to women as to men.

There is a thing about women that needs to be understood. We don't sit well with being put in a certain place.

Of course the female experience is different from those of our male peers - just like every woman's story is different from their fellow females.

There's something about a woman's life choices that invites commentary, whether it's been invited or not.

As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.