Marina Abramovic Quotes

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

Why can't ladies like nice guys?

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

Women are a strange thing. Like watches, houses, and cars, you really only need one at any moment in your life (French men disagree).

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 problem is that, partly because we are women, a large measure of our happiness depends on our relationships - including, unavoidably, our relationships with men.

Women are the harshest critics of other women.

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

I don't have a lot of men in my life. I'm married, but I have daughters. I'm surrounded by a lot of females in my world.

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.

The thing I will say is that probably culturally, women are treated differently, which means, I think, you're criticized more, you have to listen a little bit more, you have to justify yourself.

Women blame men for their own singlehood.

The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.

Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.

There are certain things women are better at than men.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.

Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.

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

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Women are so complicated, it's unbelievable.