Anne Hathaway Quotes

I don't want there to always be this stigma of the "female" artist. "Oh, what does it feel like to be a female doing something?" That hurts me.

Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend.

Shrillness is not the inevitable curse of the fairer sex.

One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine, and women are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

I didn't want to be the girl in the group that couldn't do as much as the boys. I'm very competitive like that.

In my opinion it is a grave error for women to feel that they must move only in women's interests... . What, after all, would we think if men all got together and kept doing things that were supposed to be in the interest of men?

Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can do.

Fox doesn't treat me any differently, and that's one thing I'm very lucky with - my network treats me like a woman, but they never make me feel like I don't fit in or anything like that, which is great. But within the industry, yeah. It's a double standard, but it's something that you have to deal with or try to make better; turn into a positive.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Once again, no one in charge had given any thought to the possibility that a woman would be involved.

If we have a situation where a man is particularly graceful in a sport that rewards grace - say, for example, figure skating - why is it that we don't say to the man, 'Well, you're too feminine to compete?'... I don't understand why we don't find it offensive also to say to a women who's very strong, 'You're too masculine to compete.'

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.

I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.