A man approached her and dropped the usual comment: that, as a woman, she had too many opinions.

Anne Hathaway didn’t stay quiet. She threw the phrase back at him using the same logic he had used, but aimed directly at his ignorance: “To be a man, you’re pretty ignorant”.

The response is now circulating among thousands of women who recognize that same scene, experienced in different versions, almost every week. There was no need to shout or insult anyone. Ten well-chosen words were enough to remind people that a woman’s opinion should never be judged differently from a man’s.

