Sigourney Weaver Quotes

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.

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

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

But I have on occasion suddenly realised that some men feel slightly threatened by, or slightly baffled by, or confused by, possibly even now, by having a woman in... a very powerful role.

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.

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.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

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

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.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

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.

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.

I don't like the term 'chick flick.' I think it denigrates a movie. It has overtones of talking down to women, like they are second best.

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

There are certain things women are better at than men.

I'm not interested in playing the girl that's just there to make the guy, you know, give him a talking to.

Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of?