Nina Bawden Quotes

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

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

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

A high-powered, successful woman doesn't necessarily have the same support behind her that a man in that position would. Plus, she's expected to be a domestic goddess, as well as the best wife, mother, friend, and lover. But it's not just in politics: you see it in acting, too, and in journalism.

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

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.

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.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

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.

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.”

Men aren't asked about age. Men aren't asked about their children. Not that these things aren't important, but I do feel like it becomes reductive when a woman's life becomes, 'Talk to me about your kids and how you feel about plastic surgery.'

A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

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 my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.

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.

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

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

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?'