Daily Inspiration Quote by Sharon Gless

The sting in Sharon Gless's "I kind of resent" is doing real work: it's casual phrasing that refuses to be casual. She softens the entry point just enough to make the target unmistakable. "This attitude of men" isn't about individual bad actors; it's about a default setting, a cultural thermostat men often control without noticing they set it. The word "somehow" is the tell. It points to an expectation that arrived without an invitation, passed down as common sense, enforced by glances, casting notes, and "helpful" comments.

Gless is an actress, so the line lands with extra weight in an industry that monetizes appearance while pretending it's merely "professionalism". "Must always look good" is both workplace demand and moral requirement: not just be camera-ready, but be pleasing, reassuring, non-threatening. Always. The resentment is less about vanity than about time, money, and psychic bandwidth siphoned into upkeep - a tax that gets framed as personal choice rather than structural pressure.

The intent isn't to shame men so much as to expose the asymmetry. Men are allowed to age into "distinguished" or "character"; women are asked to perform a kind of visual optimism on command. By naming it as an attitude - not a preference, not a standard - Gless shifts the conversation from individual taste to power. The subtext: if you demand beauty as baseline, you also reserve the right to punish deviation. And that, she’s saying, is the part worth resenting.