Helen Sharman Quotes

Women blame men for their own singlehood.

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.

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.

It's ingrained in people's minds that it's a typecast and a stereotype that women are just emotional and crazy.

When a woman acts as though she’s capable of everything, she gets stuck doing everything.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?

As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.

I think feeling responsible for stuff that goes wrong is an inherent part of being female.

A lot of times, I get asked, 'Do you feel you have a responsibility to young girls to be a role model?' I don't see that happening as much to guys. I feel like, just because I'm a girl, I'm supposed to take more responsibility? Is that how it works?

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

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

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

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.

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.

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.

You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.

We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.

I grew up in a home where I was literally told from a young age, 'No daughter of mine will ever wash a man's socks,' and I am pleased to say I never have. It was made clear that whatever I wanted to do I should aspire to, regardless of my gender.

People ask me why I'm so hard on men. It's because they've gotten a really easy ride. And it's not that I think women should take over the world. But I do think it should be 50/50.

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.