Marian Keyes Quotes

That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads." "That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

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

After 'Kidulthood,' I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn't write women very well. I was very annoyed.

Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.

What you're getting excited about is not A face, but a feminine face.

The past subjection of women has so chastened women, so trained her to think of others rather than of herself, that after all it may have acted more as a blessing rather than a curse to the world? May it not bring her to the problems of the future with a purer aim and a keener insight than is possible for a man?

I walk into a room, and people see me as a director, not a woman.

If you took a child in London and took their iPhone and took them somewhere else in the country, they'd probably not be able to find their way back. That's a shame.

Being a woman means that my male privilege seeped out of my body.

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 are inherently told their bodies are objects, so that's how we treat them.

I get lost a lot.

In general, the threshold for a woman becoming worried at how she's coming off in terms of asserting her power, that threshold is continually lower than it is for men.

I didn't really realise that I was going to have more obstacles because I was a woman. It was never something that I thought about.

Patriarchy doesn't just make men out to be ogres. Women buy into the patriarchy as well, and women make those comments as well, like, 'Boys will be boys.' Women have to undo that stuff, too.

You have a different experience as a woman walking through life; you just do.

At first, being girls got us a lot of attention. But no one would take us seriously.

Up until recently, I've said, 'I don't notice the sexism in the industry.'

My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'

I didn't realize Oklahoma had so many fine women.

We've been socialised and told that there is a way to describe people, and that way is by their gender or their sex.

The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.