Paloma Faith Quotes

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

Once, I was going to a film event, and someone told me not to wear high heels to it. They said that it might intimidate the men. For some reason, I was ready to take their cue, but about an hour later, something in my head started ringing, and I thought, 'That is the worst advice anybody's ever given me.'

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

Women in my world are respected as much as men.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.

… dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.

We had a mother who could have been called a feminist. That's just how we were raised. Why do you have to go sulk off in some corner because you are a girl? What's the big deal?

I never used gender as my crutch. Many women don't use gender as a crutch.

I've always been sure of my vision, but I've been in meetings where men have been talking about me like I'm not there... I've been told I should be a certain way, and I wondered if that would have been the case if I was a man.

It doesn't bother me if I'm getting attention because I'm a girl.

I never, ever grew up as a young woman believing that my gender would stand in the way of doing anything I wanted.