Julia Michaels Quotes

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

As a female, you are often being asked by directors to be warmer, softer, flirt more, smile more etc... None of those things are bad, and obviously we are capable of a variety of human behavior, but it gets really old having to play into somebody's stereotype or ideal.

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

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

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

Just because I'm a woman does not mean I have to deal with everything to do with food.

Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing.

Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all.

Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes.”

The last thing I wanted to do was play another womanizer or ladies' man or Lothario. I've taken myself out of the running for a lot of those parts, because it's just more of the same.

Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend.

Women are so complicated, it's unbelievable.

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.

I'm not saying this is all men, but in my experience as a woman, I'm not taken as seriously in a leadership role regardless of how good I am at what I'm doing.

There's an ingrained mentality in our culture that women aren't as good. Other places, it doesn't exist.

A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

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.

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.