William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

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.

Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.

A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it's not weird. But if a man does it, it's very disturbing. The way I'd describe it is like this: I have been allowed inside the house of womanhood, but I feel that they wouldn't let me in any of the interesting rooms.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

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.

Women have to compensate more in the personality department in order to get the things that men get. And they don't have as much leeway for being divas or jerks.

It's hard for women every single day; we have to be nice, but not too nice, ambitious, but not too ambitious. It puts a lot of pressure on what we should and can be.

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

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.

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.

Men can be men and still get excited about other men kicking a ball around and they're never mocked, whereas it's easy for women to take mocking on board, to be belittled. Because we're used to it.

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

When I was younger, I felt very much like, 'Oh, I have to be a certain way, I have to look a certain way.' You really, really don't. That's the way women are treated differently than men. I mean, I've had actors argue with me about this.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I have friends who have daughters and there's times I think I'm glad I have boys instead of girls.

If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception.

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

Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?