Mary Steenburgen Quotes

The only problem is, that the musicians, the guys, their careers can go from the time they're 18 'till they're 50 years old and when they get wrinkles, they're 'character lines.' But when girls get 'em, they're wrinkles!

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?'

It's more acceptable for guys to get old and craggy and become wonderful character actors as they get older, but women aren't allowed to get old and craggy in the same way.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

In the American office lexicon, 'aging' - and its close cousin 'old' - are inconsistent modifiers. While older women are often labeled as 'tired' and 'out of touch,' aging men get to be 'distinguished' and 'seasoned.'

I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.

Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous.

Hindi film heroes never age but Hindi film heroines age fast.

The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.

A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

In my generation, if a man washes the dishes, the older women still tend to cluster around and coo and thank him and praise him. But if a woman washes the dishes, it's business as usual, even if both man and woman have tough office jobs.

Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.

I feel like women are asked their age more than men.

Women become invisible as they age; men become impotent.

You'll have a guy, and they're aging however they're aging, and nobody really cares. If you're a woman, it's different.

We live with a distinct double standard about male and female aggression. Women's aggression isn't considered real. It isn't dangerous; it's only cute. Or it's always self-defense or otherwise inspired by a man. In the rare case where a woman is seen as genuinely responsible, she is branded a monster - an 'unnatural' woman.

I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.

When men age, their love interests get younger. It doesn't stop them from doing different genres of stuff. As women age in film, you know, they go from the woman in charge to the mother, the grandmother... off a cliff somewhere.

We are trying to shine a light on the infantilisation of women in the music industry. It's in the fashion and media industries too - this idea that women are more attractive if they look like little girls.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.

Frankly, I get sick of being considered a 'young woman filmmaker' rather than an individual artist, as a man would be.

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.