Jennifer Coolidge Quotes

I don't relate to that angst-y kid who hates their parents because they were horrible. It's just not my life and it's not the life of a lot of my friends.

My work caused me to interview hundreds of women about their lives and their problems.

I'm wondering when you hit the age where people say, 'Oh, OK, he's not so young.'

What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?

There's definitely a romanticism of youth, like, everywhere. Specifically with women, they kind of only exist between the age of 15 to 25.

I've seen the negative impact social media can have, particularly on younger players, who grew up with Twitter and Instagram as an integral part of life.

Everyone doesn't necessarily have to be a career woman.

What I've found is that there is an enormous shift taking place in our society. Suddenly there are all young women who are better educated and earning more money than men their age. When young couples today decide to marry, they have very different expectations of one another than their parents did. And there's even been change at the very top of the career ladder. People tend to underestimate that.

A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty.

There is no fashion for the old.

I just want to make sure girls know they don't have to carry the weight of achieving nearly impossible standards on their shoulders every day.

Young girls in particular aren't given a space to be messy and complicated and express themselves and experiment - they're told to be a little quieter and a little less than.

Young girls in Haryana should speak their mind and not be afraid to challenge the system.

In this country, if a woman wants to work, she has very little choice. After you cross the age suitable for a heroine, there is nothing in the middle; the next thing you do is you become a mother.

I was at home, pregnant, and everybody was telling me, 'You're on a roll, don't have another baby, wait a while.' Looking back, I realize my career was peaking when I was having babies, for God's sake!

My generation was the turning point. Women older than us didn't expect to have jobs or careers; those younger did. But we were where it was changing - which is interesting but uncomfortable.

It's not always about external problems. It can also come from within, and it can happen to everyone, not only young girls but also boys.

There's so much more work for a man in his mid-30s: a lot of female-driven shows, where everybody needs a husband or partner.

There's this pressure to perform in your twenties - I think it comes from this whole generational foreshadowing that presumes there will be a whole other layer of things to worry about in your thirties.

The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs, and yet you were suppose to fall at their feet? Unacceptable.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

The '80s were a really different time for kids.Technology has changed so much of how we stay in touch and keep tabs on people.

Corporate men and women, once divided by striking differences in opportunity for career growth, have come to share career chaos.

Many young girls are constantly consumed by controlling and managing their body image to the extent that they are much more involved in the production of the self than in living.

Your punishment if you're a woman. Not loved enough.