Robin Wright Quotes

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

There are certain things women are better at than men.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

It's not easy casting the men. You have to go gingerly, but you have to approach the right man at the right time because men don't want to play second fiddle to a woman. That's the truth.

Society is patriarchal, so film industry by definition is certainly patriarchal. The male gaze dominated.

Women and men just aren't that different. Oh, we're different in some intriguing ways, and it can be fun to band together for all-gal or all-guy projects. But when it comes to the tragic mess Christ came to heal, we're pretty much the same.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

I never say 'nagging.' I think that 'nagging' is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created.

I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.