Elizabeth Janeway Quotes

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.

As a woman, I feel women get the shaft all the time.

A man can be 43, and people will say, 'Oh, he's a cool bachelor, and he just hasn't settled down,' but with a woman, it's, 'Oh, she must have really wanted to get married, but she didn't.' I honestly think that attitude is a little bit sexist.

In the American office lexicon, 'aging' - and its close cousin 'old' - are inconsistent modifiers. While older women are often labeled as 'tired' and 'out of touch,' aging men get to be 'distinguished' and 'seasoned.'

I really feel like females have to go 50 extra miles. Not just one - 50 extra miles to be accepted or taken seriously.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

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

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?'

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.

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

As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment - and that I needed a TV show in my book.

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.

I feel like women are asked their age more than men.

Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.

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 become invisible as they age; men become impotent.

Do I think I am being held to a different standard than a man who would be in this exact same race with the exact same story? Might be? Yes. But that’s reality.