Sonam Kapoor Quotes

It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'

Women's ideas of themselves had changed, but the world's idea of women, somehow, had not. The cognitive dissonance was palpable at all times.

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you're not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you're not strong, they're like, 'Oh, no, no, no.'

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

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

Certainly, I am writing as a 21st-century woman, so I am much more inclined to view her as a three-dimensional woman. I think we keep coming up with this stubborn problem of a woman being judged by her appearance rather than her accomplishments. We are much more inclined to ask: was Cleopatra beautiful?

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

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.

I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

Strong women only marry weak men.

Men expect too much, do too little.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

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.

Why are women always the ones who have to forgive? If you cheated on a man, he would be like, 'You're disgusting, and I want nothing to do with you.' But women, we're supposed to be like, 'He messed up. He made a mistake.'

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.

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

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

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

You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.