Miriam Shor Quotes

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.

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!

If a woman goes out with different men on different days, women only will question her character and call her all sort of names.

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

Women blame men for their own singlehood.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

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

I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.

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.

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.

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

I realized early on that I always hated girls who used their femininity to get what they wanted.

Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something.

In our society, people look at women who are tenacious, smart, attractive, and talented and for whatever reason say, 'There must be something wrong with that equation. She couldn't possibly be all of those things at once.'

Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.

There's a lot of criticism on how an actress is aging. Why do we do that with women? I work with a lot of men who take terrible care of themselves - they drink too much, or they eat too much. We need to allow women to age.

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'.

Our distorted media culture sees men as subjects and women as objects; in films, Woody Allen gets older and older and still dates 20-year-old babes; movies about women are called 'chick flicks,' and men make fun of them.

Patriarchy doesn't just make men out to be ogres. Women buy into the patriarchy as well, and women make those comments as well, like, 'Boys will be boys.' Women have to undo that stuff, too.

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.

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!

We laud the women's cricket team when they win accolades, but when a regular girl enjoys watching cricket, the men look at her and start testing her knowledge about the sport.

I was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.