Quotes About Double standards

Though the biggest fault of the big man is tolerated easily, the smallest fault of the little man is not endured at all!

If a woman enjoyed sex, or expressed her sexuality outwardly she was automatically a slut with no respect for herself. Sex was a favor you allowed your husband so angels wouldn't curse you until morning.

For some reason my father saw no problem with us pplaying "barbie and ken go to hawaii to save their marriage by picking up another couple for sexy good times," but if barbie and ken had gone to hawaii to "rescue another couple from a crazed kidnapper," that would have been wrong.

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

Boys are beaten for reading poetry, grocers are called 'robbers' for sending in their bills, dogs are fed chicken while the servants are forced to eat laundry starch to stave off hunger, terrified children are put on horses at a remarkably young age, a nanny is dismissed for drunkenness but still given a good reference because to do otherwise 'would have been unkind and unnecessary'. The proper way to conduct oneself in all matters is to employ selective silence: Papa

Adults aren't allowed to cry when they fall off a bike or hit their thumb with a hammer, but they can howl like five year olds when they've got a duty free bag in their hands.

Who said "ladies" don't use words like "fuck" and "cunt," or that one doesn't use them around "ladies"? Maybe not when you're having lunch with a lady, but when a lady's fucking, she's not having lunch.

Easy is an adjective used to describe a woman who has the sexual morals of a man.

It's the standard-issue Indian male syndrome. Mothers and sisters on a pedestal on the one hand, and loose women and prostitutes below the boot on the other. And me, a good Marathi girl like his sisters, consorting with all of you wastrels and worse. Too confusing for him.

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.

Girls like me assumed we'd be judged and belittled, we expected girls to be sexualised and then condemned for their sexuality, punished for both silence and speaking out, told we should accept responsibility for our choices and then called crazy or stupid or slutty if we didn't live by the rules other people chose for us.