Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

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.

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.

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.

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didn't get you very far, because there weren't too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldn't be both.

Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'

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

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

Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?

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.

No woman ever lived who could compete with a man on an equal basis - even a 55-year-old man. There's a lot of talk about Women's Lib. They feel they're worth as much as the guys, but they can't play a lick if they can't beat a 55-year-old guy.

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

So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

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

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

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.