Brandi Rhodes Quotes

French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.

I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.

I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed.

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

I'm not a sex symbol.

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

One of the significant things that's happened, which shouldn't be looked at as lightly as it might sound, is that women over 45, over 50, are now allowed to be sexy.

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?

Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.

I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.

I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing.

I didn't even know I was considered plus-size until I was on the red carpet here in L.A. one day and a lady said, 'How do you feel about being a plus-sized girl in Hollywood?' I was like, 'What's she talking about?'

I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to: you have got to take command and be the boss.' Because - and this is just an observation - women get their way.

Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.

Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.

Relationships between men and women have become much more complicated.

When I saw 'My Fair Lady,' I was surprised at how mean and misogynistic Henry was. Maybe that's why it's dropping out of public consciousness.

I think the media can definitely show more diversity - different sizes of women, different colours of women, just more diversity in general.

Why can't black women on stage tell stories that can affect white men in the audience?

When I did 'Baby Got Back,' that was just a reflection of the African-American community. We've always liked curves, and a lot of people misunderstood it because let's face it: 20 years prior to 'Baby Got Back,' the only images you saw of a black woman on television were she was probably 300 pounds and cleaning the house with a rag on her head.

You gotta follow the white guys. Truly. They've got this thing wired. Too often, we live within their games, so why would you not study what works? Take away the bad stuff - because there's a lot - and use the savvy interesting stuff and figure out how they can apply. It's a good one for the ladies.