Unfair Expectations Quotes

I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You should just be happy with it - they haven't had a black girl on the cover since forever.' She's no longer my publicist.

The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women.

No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -- except the housewife.

It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many, a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

If I was black or Hispanic, I wouldn't get any criticism. Because I'm white, people expect so much more out of me. That's a little unfair, but life isn't fair.

It is not a sufficient answer to say that the Jewish child need not join in the singing or the pageant if he does not want to. It is unfair and unconscionable to place on the child the burden of isolating himself from his classmates, to stand alone during the festivities and preparations for them which in many schools occupy practically all the time in December.

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

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

I never really felt I had the same respect as my male team-mates. My opinion wasn't worth as much. I used to sit quietly in meetings and not say anything, as I knew my opinions would be disregarded. And that's after I had become Olympic champion and multiple world champion.

By virtue of their being regarded as something "exceptional," even by friends and well-wishers, Negroes of attainment and genius have been unfairly disassociated from the group, and group credit lost accordingly.

There's a lot of judgement that can come from outside sometimes, and there's media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn't care less. I really couldn't care less.

Black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.

It's like, 'You're not allowed to change. That's not fair. We like you like this.' But I don't. So let me expand and express myself.

I've dubbed for as many number of films as Uttam Kumar has acted in. However, dubbing artistes are never given a recognition and are expected to be conditioned to that too.

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

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

I have no sponsors because I am not blond, tall and slim enough

It seems women are expected to be so much more than men, which means we have to work that much harder. We're the ones under the microscope. We're expected to sound perfect. We're expected to look perfect all the time. We're expected to be style-setters, whereas the boys roll onto the stage in their jeans, T-shirts and baseball caps.

'Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.

My husband didn't want me to wear any black hairstyles. Nicole Kidman was his standard of beauty.

When you are in the public eye as a person of color, you are given very little room to mess up.

If I was a boy, nobody would care that I worked out six, seven hours a day when I was 9 years old, no? Why were people always saying 'poor little girl?' I liked to work out and always did more than I was asked to.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.