Karren Brady Quotes

I worked for 20 directors as a production designer, most male. I was on the set to witness firsthand a range of sometimes atrocious emotions - well-documented firings, yellings, fights between directors and actors, hookers, abusive things, budget overages, lack of preparation. A man gets a standing ovation for crying because he's so sensitive, but a woman is shamed.

It still annoys me when I read really derogatory things about how a woman looks because you would usually not read these things about a man, and that still has the potential to put women off public life.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

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.

I want people to be sensitive about how women feel and think.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

Why do women always get pointed at for their bodies?

On the whole, I have quite a low opinion of men.

This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.

I realized early on that I always hated girls who used their femininity to get what they wanted.

The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.

I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking.

I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.

I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

Seeing how dumb and stupid they often are, I just couldn't imagine minions being girls.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.