Nita Strauss Quotes

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, you are so afraid of people thinking you are weak.

I've been boxing ever since I was 16. I love surprising people who think a short, blond girl can't fight! Just because I look a certain way doesn't mean I'm weak.

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.

A lot of people believe women can't do tech-y stuff. Becoming nerdy doesn't have to mean the short-haired guy, but can be the woman with very long, beautiful hair.

Almost without exception, the talented women I have known have believed they had less ability than they actually had. And almost without exception, the talented men I have known believed they had more.

The only moment I become aware of being the only woman in a meeting is when actresses are being discussed. If someone's critical of how a woman looks, they turn to me and apologize.

As a young girl, I'm always going to have to work a bit harder to prove myself; that's just reality. But having to work harder makes me feel like girls are stronger, too.

Playing a woman in the tech world never crossed my mind as a thing until people started bringing it up all time. People act like it's unicorns speaking English all of a sudden.

The music industry is hard work, especially for women. A lot of people pit us against each other, comparing two body types or two women that are completely different. It's a lot of pressure.

Funny enough, the most discrimination I've ever gotten as a woman in this industry has been from other women.

I have never let gender get in my way.

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

If you keep telling girls they're less good at science, that will probably be self-fulfilling. But there are quite a lot of women who are good at it.

I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.

I realized early on that I always hated girls who used their femininity to get what they wanted.

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.

There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

I don't see why women have to get naked to sell an album. It's crazy.

I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking.

It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.

I think being a woman celebrity is the hardest thing in India... People will ask many things, what you wear, how you speak, when you will have a baby and other things.

Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.

I was absolutely astonished by an onslaught of comments expressing their absolute shock that IFLS is run by a woman.