Honore de Balzac Quotes

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

A man is known by the company he keeps, but a woman is known by the company she keeps waiting.

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.

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

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

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.

There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and publicly disdained.

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

We women are so judged by the way we dress, and men are not. So style is part of developing your own brand.

I have been told by people that I should not be seen clubbing with good-looking women, but I can't see why not. Why be a pop star otherwise?

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

I think being a woman celebrity is the hardest thing in India... People will ask many things, what you wear, how you speak, when you will have a baby and other things.

It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?

When we get married or interviewed for a job or play professional sports or run for president of the United States, we encounter a whole set of standards and expectations. We can be shamed for an outfit that's too slutty, too dowdy, too pricey--take your pick. That's the burden women carry into the fitting room.

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.

Women are so complicated, it's unbelievable.

Women are hypocrites. Women are opportunists. Women are liars. They are abusers and bullies and manipulators. They are capable of cruelty, callousness, and evil. Just like men.

Women are allowed to exist in this very narrow lane, but as soon as you step out of that lane, people want to stone you.

Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.