Calm Quote by Lisa Kleypas

“Women are supposed to be calm generally: but women feel just as men feel...”

— Charlotte Brontë

“If you are a woman, you are not supposed to express anger, because it is threatening.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A woman should stay calm when her man is in trouble.

— Sannica

Men in particular think that they have achieved something if they can make a woman mad, particularly if she is calm and intellectual.

— Martha Nussbaum

“The most unbearable type of anger is a woman’s—do anything to avoid it.”

— Lee Child

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

— Claire Messud

“In the history of the world, telling someone to ‘calm down’ has never done anything but piss them off more.”

— Sarah Beth Durst

“A woman can never be angry; she can only be neurotic, hysterical, frustrated.”

— Shashi Deshpande

Women's anger is very scary to people, and to no one more than to other women, who think, 'My goodness, if I let the…

— Claire Messud

“irritability in men is regarded as a sign of status. But when women lose their temper they’re seen as less competent.”

— Valerie Young

I will not calm down! Women are allowed to get angrier than men about double standards.

— LIZ

As a militant troublemaker, I once wrote that it was the duty of every woman worthy of the description to upset men at least…

— Julie Burchill