Ama Ata Aidoo Quotes

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?'

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.

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.

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

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

It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys.

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.

You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

All sorts of articles and letters appear in the papers about women. Profound questions are raised concerning them. Should they smoke? Should they work? Vote? Marry? Exist? Are not their skirts too short, or their sleeves? Have they a sense of humor, of honor, of direction? Are spinsters superfluous? But how seldom similar inquiries are propounded about men.

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 think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

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.

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

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

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

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

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

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

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

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.