Barbra Streisand Quotes

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

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.

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

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

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 think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

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

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

There are certain things women are better at than men.

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

Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a novel. It's just a book.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

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.

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

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

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 aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

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.

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

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.