Orlando Bloom Quotes

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.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

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

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

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.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

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

Years ago, I worked in a newspaper office, and there were men that would have fits of temper, and it was just accepted that that's who they were, and everyone would laugh about it, but if a woman got upset or angry, something wasn't right: she was 'hysterical' or 'a little unhinged.' It didn't have the same sort of connotation at all.

When women do take on traditionally male subjects, certain male colleagues can seem affronted that a woman has dared to trespass on their subject. I could given you dozens of examples, but here's one: Max Hastings's review in the 'Sunday Times' in 2009 of Miranda Carter's book 'The Three Emperors'.

Women have to compensate more in the personality department in order to get the things that men get. And they don't have as much leeway for being divas or jerks.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

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.

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

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.

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.

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

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

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.