Marian Keyes Quotes

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

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

Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?

It was not easy to get to where I am. My challenge is to learn to deal with the jokes that are common among men that I heard and continue to hear sometimes among men.

Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.

In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.

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.

On the whole, I have quite a low opinion of men.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.

I feel like women are asked their age more than men.

One of the major differences between gender discrimination and Racial or Religious Discrimination is that the with the latter the perpetrators fundamentally recognized that it was based on power offered moral challenges. However, men—the perpetrators of discrimination against women have mostly not even considered the moral aspect of it and perceived it as natural.

Women cannot complain about men until they start gettting better taste in them.

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.

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.

When I was younger, I felt very much like, 'Oh, I have to be a certain way, I have to look a certain way.' You really, really don't. That's the way women are treated differently than men. I mean, I've had actors argue with me about this.

The left-wing thinkers and intellectuals have been more misogynist with me than the army. They can't accept that a young woman is able to think, and they underestimate the intellectual work and study I might have done. They ask who is the man behind me.

Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

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.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.