Harper Lee Quotes

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

'Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.

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.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Men can't bear to see women cry.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Boys are so much drama.

I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them!

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.

Years ago, I worked in a newspaper office, and there were men that would have fits of temper, and it was just accepted that that's who they were, and everyone would laugh about it, but if a woman got upset or angry, something wasn't right: she was 'hysterical' or 'a little unhinged.' It didn't have the same sort of connotation at all.

It's okay for a guy to be a baddie, but a woman? No, we can't deal with that.

It's easy for guys to listen to another guy for support, but if it's a female, they seem to shy away from it, like they don't want to be a sucker, you know what I'm saying? So we kind of got to go harder.

There are some men that are very threatened by the fact that women play games nowadays.

I really feel like females have to go 50 extra miles. Not just one - 50 extra miles to be accepted or taken seriously.

Women have to compensate more in the personality department in order to get the things that men get. And they don't have as much leeway for being divas or jerks.

A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.

One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine, and women are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

When people say, "Oh, she plays like a dude," it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, "Oh, she's as good as us." Of course, that's a stupid statement.

I don't like being put in the same category as people because we have the same genitals and boobs. Nobody is going to write "Lily Allen vs. Ed Sheeran." It just doesn't happen.

It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.

People aren't comfortable thinking of women as people. Like we're not people, we're women, and that means something completely different, especially when you have power.