Nina Turner Quotes

I can't tell you the number of times I have been underestimated, objectified or deprived of fair credit for my accomplishments based on my gender or ethnicity.

Few people realize what a handicap it is to be what people call a beautiful woman. I'm glad, of course, that I don't look like an unmade bed, but too often, I'm just taken at face value. And there aren't many men who believe a beautiful woman can have any brains.

If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

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

I believe you have to start with yourself, think about your bad habits and prejudices, not only in your profession but generally in life. Why do I assume that a doctor is a man? Something is indoctrinated from very early on.

When a woman stands up and is strong and commanding, she's called bossy. When a man does the same thing, people say, 'They're strong.'

I really feel like females have to go 50 extra miles. Not just one - 50 extra miles to be accepted or taken seriously.

When people think what is the most simple sort of human, it's a white man, and anything else that is added to that complicates it for people. It comes with all kinds of meanings and connotations. If they have a different skin color, that comes with a connotation. If they're a woman, 'Oh well, what do I feel about that?'

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.

Whenever black women have a point, they're characterized as angry black women, and therefore the thing they're talking about is no longer of importance because they have to deal with them being overly emotional or something. I recognize that people who respond negatively to what I have to say aren't at a place yet where they are able to learn ... And it's exactly what I'm trying to fight.

Women would rather be right than reasonable.

A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.

You can never overlook a guy.

When I saw Adele, I thought: 'I'll give it an hour before people say I was her,' just because I was fat. When you watch 'X Factor,' you can bet your bottom dollar, every single fat singer sounds like me as far as the judges are concerned. Can you imagine if they did that with every black artist?

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

If being an attractive woman got you attention for directing, then the entire 'best director' category would be comprised of models. To me, that is just the most ludicrous connection that you could make.