Yvonne Orji Quotes

I realized early on that I always hated girls who used their femininity to get what they wanted.

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

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.

A high-powered, successful woman doesn't necessarily have the same support behind her that a man in that position would. Plus, she's expected to be a domestic goddess, as well as the best wife, mother, friend, and lover. But it's not just in politics: you see it in acting, too, and in journalism.

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

I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.

There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

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.

Women's ideas of themselves had changed, but the world's idea of women, somehow, had not. The cognitive dissonance was palpable at all times.

It's funny that black men, at first, were worried about a show called 'Girlfriends' because they thought that black men were gonna get bashed. They realized, 'Wait a minute - we're respected in this story.'

Men always like what the ladies like.

'Desperate Housewives' - there's no man on the planet that takes that personally, but if it were 'Desperate Househusbands,' they would shut ABC down.

While men pretend not to judge women for the way they look, we go to great lengths to pretend we don't care, either.

I was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.

When you say 'the man of the house,' the black woman has been the woman and the man of the house, because black men have so often had to spend all of their time and energy working and trying, at least, to give their families the basic needs. So black women, I find, are not really concerned about women's liberation.

Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.

I don't know why in society when a woman demands perfection she is called crazy.

Ever since the romantic comedy-drama 'She's Gotta Have It' antagonized black women and black men in 1986, Spike Lee's films have enjoyed the outrage of various groups.

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.

When you live in a leading lady's body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny.

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.