Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

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 will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

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

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.

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.

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.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

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

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.

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?'

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself.

Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

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 man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.

There are certain restrictive parts of a woman’s constitution that that were given her by nature and which forbid us from applying the same standard of expectation to women as to men.

Men regarded women as a servant class in the community, and that women were going to remain in the servant class until they lifted themselves out of it.