Zayn Malik Quotes

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

My mom always had a softer spot for boys, as a lot of Irish women do. If you were a girl, you'd have to sing or wear a pretty dress. But boys could just sit there and be brilliant for sitting there and being boys. It makes you that little bit more forward. Pushy. I was singing, always.

I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.

I have friends who have daughters and there's times I think I'm glad I have boys instead of girls.

When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it's not weird. But if a man does it, it's very disturbing. The way I'd describe it is like this: I have been allowed inside the house of womanhood, but I feel that they wouldn't let me in any of the interesting rooms.

As a female, you are often being asked by directors to be warmer, softer, flirt more, smile more etc... None of those things are bad, and obviously we are capable of a variety of human behavior, but it gets really old having to play into somebody's stereotype or ideal.

I've always been so confused about being a girl. Not in a Bruce Jenner way, just... there's that expectation where you walk into a room, and it's like, Is it OK to be a woman?' Or, you know, you're looking for your keys in the back of a cab, and sometimes the driver can treat you like you've had a lobotomy.

When I was born, my mother was very disappointed. She wanted a son. I knew that from a very early age. So I was a tomboy.

I feel like all guys are the same.

When a woman stands up and is strong and commanding, she's called bossy. When a man does the same thing, people say, 'They're strong.'

Gender perception can be a pernicious thing: Where a lack of warmth passes in a male, in a woman, it's deadly.

One woman can be written off by a culture always looking to judge and blame women.

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.

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

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

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.

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

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.

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

When I was younger, I felt very much like, 'Oh, I have to be a certain way, I have to look a certain way.' You really, really don't. That's the way women are treated differently than men. I mean, I've had actors argue with me about this.