Maria das Gracas Silva Foster Quotes

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

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.

When women do take on traditionally male subjects, certain male colleagues can seem affronted that a woman has dared to trespass on their subject. I could given you dozens of examples, but here's one: Max Hastings's review in the 'Sunday Times' in 2009 of Miranda Carter's book 'The Three Emperors'.

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.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

On the whole, I have quite a low opinion of men.

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "feminine" timidity, submissiveness, obedience, silliness, and self-debasement — are the very qualities best guaranteed to assure the defeat of even the most gifted aspirant.

Women cannot complain about men until they start gettting better taste in them.

I think, being a woman, we got to prove ourselves twice.

I've always been sure of my vision, but I've been in meetings where men have been talking about me like I'm not there... I've been told I should be a certain way, and I wondered if that would have been the case if I was a man.

Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

Men can be men and still get excited about other men kicking a ball around and they're never mocked, whereas it's easy for women to take mocking on board, to be belittled. Because we're used to it.

I never say 'nagging.' I think that 'nagging' is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created.

The left-wing thinkers and intellectuals have been more misogynist with me than the army. They can't accept that a young woman is able to think, and they underestimate the intellectual work and study I might have done. They ask who is the man behind me.