Holly Marie Combs Quotes

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

The left-wing thinkers and intellectuals have been more misogynist with me than the army. They can't accept that a young woman is able to think, and they underestimate the intellectual work and study I might have done. They ask who is the man behind me.

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

It was not easy to get to where I am. My challenge is to learn to deal with the jokes that are common among men that I heard and continue to hear sometimes among men.

Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all.

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.

In Hollywood, women hate each other.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

On the whole, I have quite a low opinion of men.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

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

If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them.

I've always been so confused about being a girl. Not in a Bruce Jenner way, just... there's that expectation where you walk into a room, and it's like, Is it OK to be a woman?' Or, you know, you're looking for your keys in the back of a cab, and sometimes the driver can treat you like you've had a lobotomy.

I've definitely had my struggles with the male species, as I'm sure most girls have.

When you see the way some people write women, especially in studio movies, it's like, 'Sorry! Sorry for being alive!' Women are so apologetic.

When women do take on traditionally male subjects, certain male colleagues can seem affronted that a woman has dared to trespass on their subject. I could given you dozens of examples, but here's one: Max Hastings's review in the 'Sunday Times' in 2009 of Miranda Carter's book 'The Three Emperors'.

There are so many double standards that seem to be applied only to female MPs. I've had infinite comments about what I'm wearing when the focus should be on what I'm saying.

I've always been sure of my vision, but I've been in meetings where men have been talking about me like I'm not there... I've been told I should be a certain way, and I wondered if that would have been the case if I was a man.

Age-shaming women is abhorrent.

Our culture hasn't stopped objectifying women. We - men and women both - are just getting better at pretending it's not happening.