Jane Austen Quotes

A woman isn't as old as she thinks she is. She's as old as men think she is.

Directing is genderless. The only thing... I love men. I'm not being mean to them, but they can't hear you. I don't have a husband, and so I'm not really attuned to it, but I didn't know that they could not really hear you. Like, I'm talking, and they just walk away.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

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.

A lot of times, I get asked, 'Do you feel you have a responsibility to young girls to be a role model?' I don't see that happening as much to guys. I feel like, just because I'm a girl, I'm supposed to take more responsibility? Is that how it works?

I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not.

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.

I look a little bit like Barbie and talk a little bit like Ken. It's easier for me to sit in the middle of the boys' club than to be surrounded by people concerned about getting their hair and nails done.

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

I never know where women are coming from.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

I'm quite a chauvinistic person.

I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

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

I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women.

I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women.

I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist.

This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.

I've always thrown like a girl.