Marta da Silva Quotes

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

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

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

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.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

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.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.

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

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

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.

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate?

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.

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.

I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

Every time a male coach berates his players by referring to them as “ladies” or tells them to “hike their skirts” while playing, we’re perpetuating an atmosphere where women are not men’s equals.

When we get married or interviewed for a job or play professional sports or run for president of the United States, we encounter a whole set of standards and expectations. We can be shamed for an outfit that's too slutty, too dowdy, too pricey--take your pick. That's the burden women carry into the fitting room.