George Eliot Quotes

I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.

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?'

They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

The difference between men and women seems to be this: I can argue with my promoter downstairs, accuse him of ripping me off, and 20 minutes later we'll be playing golf together. With a lady, the same argument can go on for, like, years.

I don't think 50-50 relationships exist. Men have an incredibly variety of options. It's much harder for a woman to do both things. I think traditional relationships work best.

I don't think anyone can teach you how to be a man but a woman. You only learn by learning what they need.

Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature.

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.

So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

Guys are so easygoing and girls are a little harder to please, but that's okay.

Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.

There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.

I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.

Little girls as children, I think, are expected to behave better. If a boy's naughty at school, he's a little bit cheeky and mischievous. If a girl's naughty, she's trouble.

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

I think women who don't understand boundaries are fascinating.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

I think women should have insight as to how men think. Just like men should have insight into how women think.

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

Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.

I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.

Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didn't get you very far, because there weren't too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldn't be both.

Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.