Holly Hunter Quotes

I used to work a lot on ranches where I grew up, and I had to rise at 5:30 in the morning.

Men often still expect women to be under their thumb.

I was blessed to grow up on a farm, and when you're a farm boy, exercise is part of your lifestyle. Like it or not, that environment makes you work out. On the farm, nature is your gym. You walk and run and swim and have to do a lot of work with animals too.

I'm one of nine sisters. My parents were dairy farmers in Wisconsin. My father didn't believe in girls doing farm work. Girls did housework, and he hired young men to do farm work. I would have preferred to be outside.

What is interesting to me is looking at how male and female writers depict men who, come in behind to fill those domestic duties, deal with personal and cultural lack of respect for doing what is lingeringly perceived as 'women's work.'

Man is the organizer of life, woman is his organ for carrying out plans.

The ability of women is not known because they are relegated to the business of procreation, child-rearing, and breast feeding.

Women are not trained to be housekeepers, nor to be wives, nor to be mothers ...

The common man thinks that the marriage is like appointing one to do his work. The husband thinks so! The husband’s family thinks so. Every one thinks that a girl is coming to the family to do work. Even the girl’s family trains the girl to do the household work

No. 1, women should be in the bedroom. No. 2, get to the kitchen. No. 3, support the man, support the king.

I grew up cleaning stalls and milking cows.

Why do men feel threatened by women?

To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman.

The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation.

I'd rather do manual labor than sit behind a desk. And as my grandparents got older, I'd fly out there and help out around the farm. We'd tear barns down; we'd build barns. I'd rather be outside rolling hay or driving the tractors.

There is one group of people - social conservatives, religious conservatives - who honestly feel that women's place is in the home and that wives should submit to their husbands.

I hate how box office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don’t see a box office failure blamed on men. I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that. I guess it’s because we live in a patriarchal society, where feminism is a dirty word.

Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it.

I think the Bible is hugely patriarchal. There are so many sexist comments and homophobic comments and comments that are not in keeping with nurturing and loving the human spirit.

I know all about the tyranny of women.

Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.

Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

Man is a rough-hewn and woman a finished product.