Amelia Earhart Quotes

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.

The pedestal that women were placed upon often turned out to be a cage.

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

Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

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

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.

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

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

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

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes.”

Control of females is mandatory for a successful, civilized, humane and compassionate society

If you are a man, you have to be like Joe McCarthy to be called “ruthless”. For a woman, all you have to do is put somebody on hold.

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

The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?

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

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

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

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.

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's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

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?