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You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment. ”
Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture. ”
We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn't, you're letting the side down. Throwing this stumbling block in the way of female artists is counterintuitive. ”
I don't categorize myself. I don't think I'm perceived as a female act by my audience. My fans include just as many men as women. ”
Most people watch a game because they're excited about it; I'll sit there and watch lacrosse championships to try to find a female who could be a bobsledder. ”
I love who I am. But being a woman competing in a male-dominated sport and always trying to push the envelope as a female athlete, you get a lot of comparisons to men and things like that. ”
My mom used to call me 'Oprah' because I was always in a corner crying with somebody. I've always been attracted to storytelling around women's lives. ”
I don't have to go to a doctor and have my face changed. It terrifies me that women do that. ”
I play in men's and women's wear, and I kinda mix and things like that. ”
If a female student wants to drop a physics course, no one questions her, but if a male student tries to drop it, he will get pushback and encouraged to stay in, since he will need it later in life. ”