Helmut Lang Quotes

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

Women blame men for their own singlehood.

'Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.

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

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.

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

You should never be put into a mold based on your gender.

People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.

So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.

Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.

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.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

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

I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.