Nushrat Bharucha Quotes

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.

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

You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bossy' and 'bossily competent' by a male journalist, and I thought, 'Gosh, 'bossy' is never used of a man.'

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

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.

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.

If you are a man, you have to be like Joe McCarthy to be called “ruthless”. For a woman, all you have to do is put somebody on hold.

Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

Female-driven shows have to be every single thing and are constantly criticized in a way that male-driven shows are not.

When women do take on traditionally male subjects, certain male colleagues can seem affronted that a woman has dared to trespass on their subject. I could given you dozens of examples, but here's one: Max Hastings's review in the 'Sunday Times' in 2009 of Miranda Carter's book 'The Three Emperors'.

It really pisses me off when people look at women who are older and are not in a relationship as somehow sad or missing something, because they certainly don't look at men that way.

One of the things I noticed is that if you look up the word ambition you will see that when it's applied to women, it's almost always negative. If a woman is ambitious she's cutthroat, she's seen as more unpleasant. Whereas when its attached to a man it's far less negative.

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.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

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

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

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

Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

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

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

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.

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.

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.

I think women get labeled a lot as being crazy. But I think men make us crazy.