Jude Law Quotes

The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.

Why can't ladies like nice guys?

Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'

Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.

It seems like women don't want men to be men anymore. They want men to be women. But they really don't want what they say they want. It's very weird.

It is odd what notions men seem to have of the scantiness of a woman's resources. They do not find it anything out of nature that they should be able to exist by themselves; but a woman must always be borne about on somebody's shoulders, and dandled or chirped to, or it is supposed she will fall into the blackest melancholy!

Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.

When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

Being a sex symbol had its advantages. You got to meet a lot of interesting people, and men especially. It was a man's world in those days, and I had a lot of luck with men.

A man could come in the room with his hair not cut, not done, pants around his ankles and people still gon' be like, 'Oh, that's his style. It's cool.' Being a woman, you have to be on your P's and Q's at all times, because not only do you have to keep up your appearance for men, but other women judge you so hard.

While men pretend not to judge women for the way they look, we go to great lengths to pretend we don't care, either.

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

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.

Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

When I was younger, I felt very much like, 'Oh, I have to be a certain way, I have to look a certain way.' You really, really don't. That's the way women are treated differently than men. I mean, I've had actors argue with me about this.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

From a male perspective, you don't think about how much outward pressure and importance you put on how women look.

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

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.