Steve Harvey Quotes

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.

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.

It's hard for women every single day; we have to be nice, but not too nice, ambitious, but not too ambitious. It puts a lot of pressure on what we should and can be.

I think feeling responsible for stuff that goes wrong is an inherent part of being female.

I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home; that a woman should not aspire to achieve more than her male counterparts and, particularly, not more than her husband.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

I've always said that I felt women are more heroic.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.

The history of American women is about the fight for freedom, but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

There are certain restrictive parts of a woman’s constitution that that were given her by nature and which forbid us from applying the same standard of expectation to women as to men.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

Control of females is mandatory for a successful, civilized, humane and compassionate society

Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.

There is a thing about women that needs to be understood. We don't sit well with being put in a certain place.

In my country, though it is very patriarchal and male-dominated, the public enjoys women-directed movies.

Women are allowed to exist in this very narrow lane, but as soon as you step out of that lane, people want to stone you.

There's something about a woman's life choices that invites commentary, whether it's been invited or not.

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

I love women. My life revolves around them.

I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.