Frances Arnold Quotes

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

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.

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

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

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

'Little Women' has interesting gender connotations. There are generations of women who love the book. But there are a lot of men who think it's sentimental, gooey stuff.

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

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.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

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.

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

We live in a culture that does not encourage women to be epic heroes of their own Big Stories but the mothers and lovers and wives and mistresses and muses and personal assistants, the femme fatales and fantasies and manic pixie dream girls, in someone else's Big Story, and this someone else is usually a dude.

I don't understand this concept of women-oriented films or stories based on women, because nobody uses the term, a 'man-oriented' film. Why do you have to separate girls from boys?

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.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.