Hillary Scott Quotes

It takes more time and energy for women to get ready to go on camera than it does men, and that means there are fewer available minutes to focus on actually getting the job done. That's a disadvantage.

Maybe it's a great blow for feminism that we now have men mocking one another about their makeup. I mean, let's - can we enjoy that? That's kind of great.

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.

I think feeling responsible for stuff that goes wrong is an inherent part of being female.

In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.

Sadly, in any industry and in any work-related environment, females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection, whether that be skinny or pretty. It's a constant, in our society.

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

A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.

As an agent, I functioned like a guy. But the fact that I was a woman affected everything.

It seems women are expected to be so much more than men, which means we have to work that much harder. We're the ones under the microscope. We're expected to sound perfect. We're expected to look perfect all the time. We're expected to be style-setters, whereas the boys roll onto the stage in their jeans, T-shirts and baseball caps.

I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

Even though I don't agree with either Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann on virtually anything, I do think the unique scrutiny - because of their gender and highlighting the potential conflict between them is a product of the media's desire for juicy storylines. I think it's inappropriate.

I've been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career.

Woman is also the element of conflict.

If you look at tennis, the girls have become much more attractive; they wear makeup. In my generation, you were a tennis player. It wasn't like you had to look a certain way.

I haven't had a lot of experience with glamour. I've never had to mask myself, as many now not-so-young actresses have had to do. Female actors in that regard have a different lot in life than male actors.

Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didn't get you very far, because there weren't too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldn't be both.

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

We women manage to do many things at the same time. Men, no. Men do one thing at a time.

Men are just jealous because they can't wear makeup.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

Both men and women are really vast and boundless and yet in many films we're told that they're not. We're told they can only be one thing - like handsome and charming and that's it. Nothing more.