Barry Barish Quotes

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'

I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.

If, later on, my daughter wants to be in a girl group, then I think I am going to oppose.

What I hate is the thought of being under a man's thumb," I had told Doctor Nolan. "A man doesn't have a worry in the world, while I've got a baby hanging over my head like a big stick, to keep me in line.

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

I don't know why in society when a woman demands perfection she is called crazy.

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

Like the women in my family, I've found the women in my lab a hard-nosed, ambitious lot who have gone on to be faculty members at top universities. In my own family, it is my father who is prone to bursting into tears.

I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

A high-powered, successful woman doesn't necessarily have the same support behind her that a man in that position would. Plus, she's expected to be a domestic goddess, as well as the best wife, mother, friend, and lover. But it's not just in politics: you see it in acting, too, and in journalism.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.

Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didn't get you very far, because there weren't too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldn't be both.

When you're the only girl in a family of men, you have to be pretty sassy.

We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.

I grew up in a home where I was literally told from a young age, 'No daughter of mine will ever wash a man's socks,' and I am pleased to say I never have. It was made clear that whatever I wanted to do I should aspire to, regardless of my gender.

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.