Maria Doyle Kennedy Quotes

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

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.

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.

That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.

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.

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.

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

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

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

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

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

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.

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

There are certain things women are better at than men.

I think human beings have a really broad spectrum of traits, and I almost feel implicated when we say, 'Men are like this, women are like this.' Nobody was telling me, 'Don't get dirty, don't play in the mud, girls don't do that.'

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

Both men and women are really vast and boundless and yet in many films we're told that they're not. We're told they can only be one thing - like handsome and charming and that's it. Nothing more.