Sue Bird Quotes

Men are just jealous because they can't wear makeup.

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

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

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

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.

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.

If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?

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

I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.

Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.

I think human beings have a really broad spectrum of traits, and I almost feel implicated when we say, 'Men are like this, women are like this.' Nobody was telling me, 'Don't get dirty, don't play in the mud, girls don't do that.'

I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them!

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

No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.

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.

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it's not weird. But if a man does it, it's very disturbing. The way I'd describe it is like this: I have been allowed inside the house of womanhood, but I feel that they wouldn't let me in any of the interesting rooms.

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

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.

As a female, you are often being asked by directors to be warmer, softer, flirt more, smile more etc... None of those things are bad, and obviously we are capable of a variety of human behavior, but it gets really old having to play into somebody's stereotype or ideal.