Christina Tosi Quotes

If you don't have a child, you're not a real woman. I know the ERA people will kill me for saying that.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

Once, I was going to a film event, and someone told me not to wear high heels to it. They said that it might intimidate the men. For some reason, I was ready to take their cue, but about an hour later, something in my head started ringing, and I thought, 'That is the worst advice anybody's ever given me.'

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?

I understand a lot of the female needs. I'm not saying I know all of them all the time though.

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.

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

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.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable.

It seems women are expected to be so much more than men, which means we have to work that much harder. We're the ones under the microscope. We're expected to sound perfect. We're expected to look perfect all the time. We're expected to be style-setters, whereas the boys roll onto the stage in their jeans, T-shirts and baseball caps.

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

Being a woman is really crap.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

I understand I'm supposed to be feminine and dainty, but I'm not. There are two sides to the coin. People are more impressed with things that I do because they almost treat you as if you're handicapped if you're a woman... people can be impressed that I can play a few chords on the guitar.

Once again, no one in charge had given any thought to the possibility that a woman would be involved.