Barbra Streisand Quotes

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

You know, it's not fair. Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.

Every woman deals with sexism most every day of their lives. Growing up, it's just in your day-to-day. There are all these preconceived notions of what it means to be a woman or a girl, and straying from those ideas of femininity is sort of shocking to people. I felt angered by that as a kid. I felt like that was unjust. Like that was not right.

When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

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

I have met fantastic men in my life and horrible women. I have also met some amazing women and terrible men. I have seen women who are sexists.

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've been called pushy and aggressive and all the negative words that are rarely applied to men with the same traits. But it doesn't bother me.

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.

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

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

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.

My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

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

This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

Seeing how dumb and stupid they often are, I just couldn't imagine minions being girls.

I have not left any calamity more hurtful to man than woman.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

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.”