Fiona Bruce Quotes

Women are blessed with lots and lots of extra ways to win or lose validation. If you're a woman, you'll be judged on your beauty and your wit and how often you smile. You'll be judged on how much hair you have in some places and not in others.

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same for a woman. A woman has to pay attention to her hair, makeup, clothing, and jewelry choices.

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.

We didn't take Charlize Theron seriously until she did 'Monster' and became physically ugly. I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful.

In this business, certainly it's a lot crazier for women than it is for men, but there's such a thing where there's a lot of judgment on the way you look and on your body.

It's so irritating, because male rappers don't have to have a look. A guy can look like a bum on the street, but as a male, people will accept him because he's a rapper. But females, they expect you to have a big booty. They expect you to walk in six-inch heels.

Donald Trump, who surely has lots of high-stakes issues on which to focus, is consumed with the appearance of women.

There are the aesthetic pressures for a woman to be pretty and sexy, but not sexual or have desires beyond winning a guy's affections.

Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think she's attractive to the opposite sex.

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

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

As an actress - and as an actor, too, but it's worse for actresses - you constantly get picked apart for how you look.

There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

Certainly, I am writing as a 21st-century woman, so I am much more inclined to view her as a three-dimensional woman. I think we keep coming up with this stubborn problem of a woman being judged by her appearance rather than her accomplishments. We are much more inclined to ask: was Cleopatra beautiful?

From a male perspective, you don't think about how much outward pressure and importance you put on how women look.

In a way, a man's body is more beautiful than a woman's.

It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the 'Barbie doll' roles.

If you look at tennis, the girls have become much more attractive; they wear makeup. In my generation, you were a tennis player. It wasn't like you had to look a certain way.