Rebecca De Mornay Quotes

We're not accustomed to giving women the space to express the full range of emotions and flaws that men are permitted. Anger and aggressiveness aren't part of the scale of what is acceptable behavior in women, whereas men - in reality and in fiction - are allowed a much fuller range of emotion.

Men can't bear to see women cry.

If you listen to the radio, it's all men who are emotional and women who are sexual. There's nothing wrong with that! It definitely should be the case, but it makes me sad that women are afraid to be emotional because it makes them look weak.

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

It's okay for a guy to be a baddie, but a woman? No, we can't deal with that.

If it's unseemly and possibly dangerous for a man to be angry, it's totally unacceptable for a woman to be angry.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

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.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.