Chloe Pirrie Quotes

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.

It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.

I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

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.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

I've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to be a woman in the conventional sense or breaking the boundaries, those struggles are quite difficult.

I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.

The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.

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

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.

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

Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.

We try to do too many things that used to be in the men's domain, and we try to do them like men's. I'm a prude - I guess you can tell that - but I think, 'Why would you do that?'

I have been a chief only because my father wished it. I always would have preferred to be married and have a family like other women.

The common man thinks that the marriage is like appointing one to do his work. The husband thinks so! The husband’s family thinks so. Every one thinks that a girl is coming to the family to do work. Even the girl’s family trains the girl to do the household work

There's this whole feeling that women should be small and quiet and polite, and I don't think that's really gotten us anywhere.

Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

Women aren't supposed to want stuff. They're not supposed to have high emotions.

I behaved the way I was taught to behave: like a woman in the company of men. If you behaved aggressively in the company of men, they wouldn't accept you.

In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.