Clever women can’t be beautiful, feels Felicity Kendal

London: Actress Felicity Kendal has spoken against the stereotypical attitudes towards women, insisting people still expect the ladies to be ``squeaky clean``.The 63-year-old renowned British TV star, who is presently portraying a 19th century prostitute in the West End revival of George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession, said women were still expected to live up to chastity.

"Clever women can’t be too beautiful. They’ve got to be perfect and they must be completely squeaky clean. It is nonsense,” The Telegraph quoted her as apparently saying. "If a woman chooses something that isn’t respectable she is still reviled and still accused. It is not fair to judge a woman just because she looks great and uses whatever she’s got to be successful," she was said to have added. ANI