Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes

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.

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

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.

We are still uneasy with women and power…For a man to be ruthless, he has to be like Joe McCarthy. For a woman, she just has to put somebody on hold.

Female-driven shows have to be every single thing and are constantly criticized in a way that male-driven shows are not.

There's still a narrower band of acceptable behavior for women than men.

I really feel like females have to go 50 extra miles. Not just one - 50 extra miles to be accepted or taken seriously.

I have these meetings with really powerful men and they ask me all the time, 'Where are your kids? Are your kids here?' It's such a weird question. Never in a million years do I ask guys where their kids are. It would be comparable to me going to a guy, 'Do you feel like you see your kids enough?'

Men in power always seem to get involved in sex scandals, but women don't even have a word for 'male bimbo.' Except maybe 'senator.

A man is commanding - a woman is demanding. A man is forceful - a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising - a woman is a ball-breaker. A man is a perfectionist - a woman's a pain in the ass. He's assertive - she's aggressive. He strategizes - she manipulates. He shows leadership - she's controlling. He's committed - she's obsessed. He's persevering - she's relentless. He sticks to his guns - she's stubborn. If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult and impossible.

It's acceptable for men to act the fool. When women try, they're considered aggressive and opinionated.

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used.

I generally don't like living in a world where being what a man is, is a horrible thing; and no matter what a woman is, is a wonderful thing.

A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

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

You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.