Anne Hathaway Quotes

The thing I will say is that probably culturally, women are treated differently, which means, I think, you're criticized more, you have to listen a little bit more, you have to justify yourself.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

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

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.

Women are the harshest critics of other women.

It seems women are expected to be so much more than men, which means we have to work that much harder. We're the ones under the microscope. We're expected to sound perfect. We're expected to look perfect all the time. We're expected to be style-setters, whereas the boys roll onto the stage in their jeans, T-shirts and baseball caps.

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.

Women blame men for their own singlehood.

Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.

We women are so judged by the way we dress, and men are not. So style is part of developing your own brand.

I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.

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.

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

When we get married or interviewed for a job or play professional sports or run for president of the United States, we encounter a whole set of standards and expectations. We can be shamed for an outfit that's too slutty, too dowdy, too pricey--take your pick. That's the burden women carry into the fitting room.

Women are so complicated, it's unbelievable.

All this talk of equality remains merely on paper. In real life, women are still bound by several psychological shackles and emotional boundaries imposed on them by their families and others. If a girl comes home late, she is asked 100 questions, whereas boys are not answerable for anything. And this prevails across segments.

Some women are forced by men to look a certain way to be accepted by the general public, and I find that terrible.

Women are allowed to exist in this very narrow lane, but as soon as you step out of that lane, people want to stone you.

It's hard for women every single day; we have to be nice, but not too nice, ambitious, but not too ambitious. It puts a lot of pressure on what we should and can be.

So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.

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.

Sadly, in any industry and in any work-related environment, females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection, whether that be skinny or pretty. It's a constant, in our society.