Karen McDougal Quotes

I used to cry myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because of the way men leered at and disrespected me.

I think what women think is sexy is what is sexy. Girls eating pizza are massively sexy.

Yes, Bill Clinton is a big flirt.

Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

A lot of guys are very intimidated by an attractive woman, and they dehumanise her because our culture perceives beautiful women as commodities. But I think if you're able walk up to a person and get to know them, and you see their flaws and their impurities, and realise that they're like you, then you can humanise them again.

Violence against women is real and something I feel passionately about, and the gateway to all that is wolf whistling. It's allowing a man to impose his will on a woman who is just trying to walk down the street and live her life. It's all about unwanted versus wanted attention, and, of course, there's a fine line.

Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

I just think we tear down women in this country for all these superficial reasons, and women are so great and strong.

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

Is it just me, or is the world full of beautiful women?

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

You can get a man's attention if you got a pair of boobs and a butt. I hate to simplify them down so much, but I think it's true.

I think there's a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before I've even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life.

I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.

If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writer's description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. They're looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.

When women wear jeans people are tempted to pay attention to what is beyond it thus forcing them to do undesirable things.

My mother was very, very beautiful, and I saw that the beautiful women around me were often constrained not only by their beauty but by the way that being an object of male desire frequently caused violence in their lives. And it caused them to be constrained in these terribly sad ways - their brilliance was not valued.

Why do women have to face comments like, 'You are wearing short clothes; you are alluring and inviting men?'

The amount of garbage that women are expected to put up with - we're just expected to ignore when a man whistles at us. And it never makes us feel good - it always makes us feel unsafe.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

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.