Paulo Coelho Quotes

Everyone - male and female - is biased. But no one wants to admit it, so our brains search for examples that disprove the accusation.

I keep myself safe both physically and emotionally in my working environment by 'being one of the boys.' In my head, subconsciously, that was my safe place.

One thing about prejudices -- once you break one of them, you're screwed, because then they all have got to go.

We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselves as racially biased, so we tell ourselves a different story.

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.

Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright.

I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.

It doesn't bother me that people are stupid. I'm not stupid.

Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

The mistake we make with many people is that we assume that we have the model. It is a type of condescension.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

Women usually don't want to work as hard as a man.

Whenever you have to do a photo shoot with a woman, there is this weird competition. They need to prove something. They need to play games - maybe unconsciously - but women are so sensitive, and people call me more masculine sometimes.

Every time you feel entitled, you're making a mistake.

When you think you're a really good person, you're actually capable of doing some real harm to people, either knowingly or unknowingly. It's the big little lie that we all live in.

That was how we categorised ourselves in the dressing room - you were either a nerd or a Julio. Julios have got to look perfect - the hair has got to be perfect, they've got to have the right gear on, it's all about their appearance. The nerds weren't bothered about how they looked.

I don't pursue women - they pursue me.

Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is quite different.

The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

I myself have perceived women's actions as more aggressive than I would have in men because I too am walking around with my own biases. The way to fight them is to become conscious of them.

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

I would love to lecture to women on men. I'd tell them everything about men: gay, straight, bi, how we're all the same, how we're all bastards.