Campbell Brown Quotes

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.

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

It seems women are expected to be so much more than men, which means we have to work that much harder. We're the ones under the microscope. We're expected to sound perfect. We're expected to look perfect all the time. We're expected to be style-setters, whereas the boys roll onto the stage in their jeans, T-shirts and baseball caps.

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

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.

Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

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.

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

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.

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.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Sadly, in any industry and in any work-related environment, females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection, whether that be skinny or pretty. It's a constant, in our society.

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

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

A high-powered, successful woman doesn't necessarily have the same support behind her that a man in that position would. Plus, she's expected to be a domestic goddess, as well as the best wife, mother, friend, and lover. But it's not just in politics: you see it in acting, too, and in journalism.

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

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

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

There are some professions that culturally and sociologically take a long time to change, and because of that, there's still sexism in comedy audiences. We shouldn't blame them: I do it too. A woman comes on, and I feel slightly anxious. I'm a woman in comedy, and I do that; I think everyone does.

Just because I'm a woman does not mean I have to deal with everything to do with food.