Eartha Kitt Quotes

Violence against women is real and something I feel passionately about, and the gateway to all that is wolf whistling. It's allowing a man to impose his will on a woman who is just trying to walk down the street and live her life. It's all about unwanted versus wanted attention, and, of course, there's a fine line.

I used to cry myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because of the way men leered at and disrespected me.

Girls are telling me to take my shirt off. It's like, 'Hello! I'm a person, too!'

Walking in the street, particularly in a city like New York, every single day, I am reminded of how objectified women can be. Being catcalled every day, multiple times a day, all the time... it just constantly happens.

If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.

Like most women, I hate when a guy tries to pick me up by saying, You are the hottest girl I've ever seen. It's totally unrealistic. There are beautiful women everywhere.

I've been getting chatted up by men ever since I was 14.

Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.

Most men would love to be stared at by women. Don't doubt me on this. And my guess is that most women are actually intrigued by it and have developed techniques and skills for dealing with it. Don't doubt me.

Men are even afraid to say, 'You look nice,' or, 'You look pretty,' when you come out of hair and makeup to walk on set. And before, men would constantly - producers would constantly say things, but that's kind of a way that they would butter the actresses up and make them feel secure.

I haven't faced harassment in terms of work, but I think every girl in India has gone through some or the other awkward moment in public where she was eve-teased or touched inappropriately.

When women wear jeans people are tempted to pay attention to what is beyond it thus forcing them to do undesirable things.

I hate people who 'gaze rape' me.

In our industry, everything is taken lightly. Guys say so many things, and if you react to them, they go, like,'We are kidding.' Things like 'You are looking hot sexy' are common.

The amount of garbage that women are expected to put up with - we're just expected to ignore when a man whistles at us. And it never makes us feel good - it always makes us feel unsafe.

Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.

Yes, Bill Clinton is a big flirt.

It's difficult for me to trust a woman. Men are attracted to beautiful women. Women are attracted to men who offer security - financial security. And if you have money and you're famous, women find that sexy.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them.

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.

If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.