Rita Mae Brown Quotes

Even the most powerful women I know go out of their way to say that they're not really interested in power. Imagine a man saying that.

Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.

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

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.

A high-powered, successful woman doesn't necessarily have the same support behind her that a man in that position would. Plus, she's expected to be a domestic goddess, as well as the best wife, mother, friend, and lover. But it's not just in politics: you see it in acting, too, and in journalism.

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.

I realized early on that I always hated girls who used their femininity to get what they wanted.

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.

I think that we are so challenged as women to be everything and do everything and make it look easy.

Many of us were raised with the 'be a lady' thing, and all those kind of things that can be used against you and strip you out of opportunity and power.

There's a different expectation, not just on mothers but on women. We're expected to do it all, to have it all, and look good through the process and have a smile on our face, and that's not always the case.

In general, the threshold for a woman becoming worried at how she's coming off in terms of asserting her power, that threshold is continually lower than it is for men.

I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.

The sad thing about our society is that women are put in one of two categories. You're either in the beautiful category and you're seen as sexy and beautiful, or some version of that, or you're put into another category... The latter category affords women the opportunity to be smart, funny, independent, mean, strong, intelligent and opinionated. We take them seriously as politicians, if they fit into that latter category. We respect their opinions more and give them higher expectations. That latter category is what allows female actors to be characters.

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature.

Success is hard in general for most women. We now have such busy lives, and we're told we can do everything - you know, we can have the relationship and the marriage and the kids and the career.

My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them.

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.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.

When you live in a leading lady's body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny.

I think feeling responsible for stuff that goes wrong is an inherent part of being female.