Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

Gentlemen prefer blondes.

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'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

Women shouldn't be expected to only play nurturing, kind caretakers.

There's almost a Rorschach-test quality about writing about 'Playboy'. What comes out in the press is not so much about me as it is about society.

Men always like what the ladies like.

It's acceptable for men to act the fool. When women try, they're considered aggressive and opinionated.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.

The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know; what is the 'neighbouring sex'?).

No one has ever asked an actor, 'You're playing a strong-minded man.' We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman is a different animal.

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.

If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss.

Oh, I wish it were in my power to put men in the place of fashionable women for one six months! They should curl their hair, consult the milliner, make spongecake, do a little embroidery, wear long skirts, and dress so tightly that they could scarcely breathe.

Public opinion actually applauds the young woman venturing into the business world, but it still obstinately (and quite illogically) protects the young man in his sacred right to know nothing of housework.

If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.

Women are not allowed to be [complicated] in our society. We're comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we're comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there's no in-between.

Women tend to be categorized as Madonnas or whores.

Only a woman can make you feel wrong for doing something right.

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