Mila Kunis Quotes

Even though I don't agree with either Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann on virtually anything, I do think the unique scrutiny - because of their gender and highlighting the potential conflict between them is a product of the media's desire for juicy storylines. I think it's inappropriate.

Women must pay for everything…. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but also, women get more notoriety when they crash.

There are so many male antiheroes but not nearly as many female antiheroes.There's a lot of pressure on female characters to be likable. That puts a lot of pressure on women to be likable.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

A lot of times, I get asked, 'Do you feel you have a responsibility to young girls to be a role model?' I don't see that happening as much to guys. I feel like, just because I'm a girl, I'm supposed to take more responsibility? Is that how it works?

A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same for a woman. A woman has to pay attention to her hair, makeup, clothing, and jewelry choices.

I'm not sure that it matters as much to women as to our male colleagues to have the public adulation and be on the public mind.

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

Little girls as children, I think, are expected to behave better. If a boy's naughty at school, he's a little bit cheeky and mischievous. If a girl's naughty, she's trouble.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.

Men can't bear to see women cry.

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.

Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?

I think there will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that an actress is more likely to protect her public persona, so to speak, than an actor would be.

It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious.

Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didn't get you very far, because there weren't too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldn't be both.

Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.

Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'

We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's almost never used for boys - and that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce.

Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.

I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.

There's a lot of good roles for men, always, and for very young girls. But for women, not so many.

Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life.

With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.