Portrayal Of Women Quotes

#1. It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.

Mindy Kaling

#2. The media portrayal of women is always angled towards looking thinner and skinnier and ... that's not good.

Sean Bean

#3. One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital.

Ron Chernow

#4. People aren't stupid. People wanna see good movies, especially comedies. Those by the books comedies, I don't get it. Who likes those? Nobody likes those.

Emma Stone

#5. The reason he [Duke Kahanamouku] didn't like me was that I liked him too much.

Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

#6. Your thorns are the best part of you.

Marianne Moore

#7. Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

Trent Reznor

#8. A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.

John Locke

#9. No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.

Adam Smith

#10. We would love to see walking groups more widely recommended by physicians, health trainers and nurses.

Sarah Hanson-Young

#11. He's a child with a brand new toy, and I just hope he doesn't break me as soon as I'm out of the package.

J.M. Darhower

#12. I knew I was ignorant trying to be wise, lazy pretending to work hard, and over-sensitive to what others thought of me.

Ruth Swaner

#13. Like I always say, if you sit long enough by the crack of the door, you'll see your enemy go by in a hearse.

Sally Stanford

#14. Don't leave the classroom of pain without gathering wisdom from its instruction.

Tim Hiller

#15. The only antidote to chaos is peace itself.

Marianne Williamson

#16. Whether we think of Disney's blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer's recent recasting of 'Cinderella' as a cyborg in the young adult novel 'Cinder,' we know that there are countless modern retellings of the tale.

Marie Rutkoski