Amitabh Bachchan Quotes

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.

Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

I think, especially growing up in the South, we are taught that women are supposed to be soft, gentle and kind of just goes along with everything and is submissive.

Women are often told to have to be a certain way, to speak a certain way. The "norm" has been defined for many, many years, so it is very scary, especially for girls around the world who don't have the freedom and the opportunity to have a voice.

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

Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.

The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.

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.

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.

Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.

When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?

Women have to show that tummy to stay noticed.

We try to do too many things that used to be in the men's domain, and we try to do them like men's. I'm a prude - I guess you can tell that - but I think, 'Why would you do that?'

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

I grew up in a very patriarchal family. And I believe that I like being a woman. I act behaving like a woman.

There is a thing about women that needs to be understood. We don't sit well with being put in a certain place.

An African man should not do anything called housework or cooking.

I just assumed that if you were a girl-child, you were supposed to grow up and write.

In our village women are left to clean the house and milk the cattle so when I first entered the ring, I had to hear the criticism of people.

I think maternal instinct is a male construct that has been used for centuries to keep women in their place, at home.

A woman will always be made to feel like a criminal, whatever choice she makes, however hard she tries. Mothers feel like criminals. Non-mothers do, too.

Things are not going to change until Indian women, and their parents, stop being afraid of what society will say. This is the single biggest obstacle. The fear of what people will say and how this will shame their parents means that women are paralysed.

Even in the first world, expectations are not as high for women as they are for men. We get that message subtly, but in the third world, it isn't subtle. Girls are isolated and encouraged not to talk to one another.

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.