Barbi Benton Quotes

I've had people hate me for my appearance. I think it gets me a certain level of empathy with the audience. If I was white and handsome and privileged, I probably couldn't talk about what I talk about because people wouldn't believe that I have empathy or I could be evenhanded and objective. It's strange.

The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.

This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

I don't fear being judged as a misogynist.

I have had to answer questions like, 'But you don't look like lead material.' Now, I still don't know what 'lead material' looks like because everyone has eyes, a nose, and a face.

There have been instances when people have told me that I look too intelligent to be an actress.

I think that if I was a white male people would get me more. I do. I think that. I think a lot of things would make more sense if I was a guy and if I had people supporting me and saying this is the greatest thing in the world.

From my situation as an African American person in the U.S., people may look at me and think a certain thing without getting to know me. I'm of Nigerian and Caribbean heritage. I went to Yale. What you see is not what you think you're getting.

It’s the downside of a family business: anything good is because I’m somebody’s son; otherwise, I’m a schmuck.

When I say a girl like me, I bet you think I'm just talking about being fat. How dare you fat-shame me? You think I'm talking about being black? Racist. What makes you think I'm not talking about being smart? What? You don't think a fat, black girl can be smart or something? Fat-shaming racists like you make me sick.

If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession.

I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.

The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.

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.

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 am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist.

Few people realize what a handicap it is to be what people call a beautiful woman. I'm glad, of course, that I don't look like an unmade bed, but too often, I'm just taken at face value. And there aren't many men who believe a beautiful woman can have any brains.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.

For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.

When a man gets up to speak, people listen then look. When a woman gets up, people kook; then, if they like what they see, they listen.

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

Because I'm a woman, and I'm petite and blonde, you wouldn't believe how often I'm asked to model the clothes.

Red hair stigmatizes you.