Honor Blackman Quotes

Emasculation does seem to be a theme in the roles that I choose.

Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.

I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.

But alas, I'd have to find a way to be opinionated without being too opinionated, authoritative without being a bitch about it, smart without being elitist, fair without being a pushover. If the boyfriends of my youth found me too authoritative when I should have been cheering on the sidelines as they kicked and tossed and smacked balls toward the vanguard, the male colleagues of my adulthood kept reminding me of my lack of authority as they unconsciously displayed theirs. I was always failing someone's standards of legitimacy, as a girlfriend, as a producer of opinions. It was an eternal no-win.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Normally, I'm the one fawning over the man, but in 'Call The Midwife,' I'm the experienced woman.

I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.

I don't think I could keep my position as a well-standing man in the world if I thought there were roles for men and women.

I behaved the way I was taught to behave: like a woman in the company of men. If you behaved aggressively in the company of men, they wouldn't accept you.

Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend.

If you... scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be.

I was raised to think women had babies, stayed at home, and men worked. By the time I got ready to do it, I thought I had all the answers. Only somebody had changed the questions.

No one has ever seen me as feminine.

All my life I've always been so ashamed of being feminine.

I basically lived like a guy for, certainly, the first decade of my career, and I just wanted to blend in.

The demands of having to be 'masculine' are as damaging to men as the demands of having to be 'feminine' are to women. I wish we could all agree just to wash it all away. Begin again.

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.