Lara St. John Quotes

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Sexism definitely exists - you see that in all walks of life.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Wherever you find 'men together' - writing the rules, as at exclusive golf or other men's clubs, businesses, and lodges where they wear elaborate robes and funny hats - women are kept completely outside if possible and, when grudgingly admitted, to highly restricted areas or token status.

The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

The legal profession has been built by men for men in a man’s world. Women find it distinctly uncomfortable.

I don’t have any respect to men who send women out to do their fighting for them.

As soon as woman raises her voice or uses her pen in defense- however cool and earnest- of her own side of the question, there is an immediate outcry made in order to drown her. It is so easy for men to talk of ‘the clamor of shrill voices,’ ‘the cackle of female tongues,’ that in the pleasure of so describing them they occasionally forget that they have not answered their opponents’ argument…

A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.

Hollywood is hard on everyone, but it really is harder on women and people of color.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that needs women.

Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.

Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.