Lois Wyse Quotes

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

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

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.

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.

It's acceptable for men to act the fool. When women try, they're considered aggressive and opinionated.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

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

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.

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.

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?'

They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

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.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

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

If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and publicly disdained.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

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

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

We women are so judged by the way we dress, and men are not. So style is part of developing your own brand.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.