Julia Louis-Dreyfus Quotes

The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything.

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

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.

Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life.

Women feel like they have to choose. Am I going to have a career or am I going to have kids and that's not a decision that men have to make.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

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.

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. Men don't have it all. They may have it better because they get paid more for the same work, but they don't have it all.

Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

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

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

It is odd what notions men seem to have of the scantiness of a woman's resources. They do not find it anything out of nature that they should be able to exist by themselves; but a woman must always be borne about on somebody's shoulders, and dandled or chirped to, or it is supposed she will fall into the blackest melancholy!

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.

I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.

Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.

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

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

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.”