Charli XCX Quotes

The press seems to love pitting women against each other.

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them.

You hear about these shows where there are all these women are supposedly always in a catfight, and then you find out in reality that they're all getting along fine.

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

Women are the harshest critics of other women.

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life.

Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them.

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

I have no time for it at all, when women just don't like women. I don't get it.

Women are not baby machines. There's a lot more to being a woman, so reducing them to that is quite disgusting.

I think women are very complicated human beings, and I think there's an oversimplification of women when you see them on screen.

I was groomed as a so-called sex symbol, a rival to Marilyn Monroe, and from then on, whenever my picture appeared in paper, it was 'sex kitten,' 'sex symbol,' 'sex goddess,' 'sex pot.' I've accepted it, and I'm flattered, but in some ways, it's been a hindrance to me because I haven't been able to be taken seriously as an actress.

Too frequently, we see women being pitted against each other.

I hated women before I went to prison. I always felt like women were trying to tear each other down.

I hope that people realise pitting two women against each other is just silly.

There is no denying the fact that we live in a patriarchal society, and Bollywood is a patriarchal industry for sure. And it is not too fond of women with opinions.

I think women judge other women more harshly, always, which is a shame.

I was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.