Rosamund Pike Quotes

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

But I have on occasion suddenly realised that some men feel slightly threatened by, or slightly baffled by, or confused by, possibly even now, by having a woman in... a very powerful role.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

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

I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

Society has always been male; political power has always been in the hands of men.

We are still uneasy with women and power…For a man to be ruthless, he has to be like Joe McCarthy. For a woman, she just has to put somebody on hold.

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.

I've definitely had my struggles with the male species, as I'm sure most girls have.

Society is patriarchal, so film industry by definition is certainly patriarchal. The male gaze dominated.

To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.

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.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

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

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.

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?'

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