Katie Pavlich Quotes

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.

I don't feel that I've faced discrimination. I've had every chance to succeed and more, and I think that's what all women should have.

The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.

The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.

There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

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

We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.

I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.

I've been asked about the glass ceiling a lot, and I don't think of myself as some kind of crusader going around smashing glass. I don't feel like I had to - and that is a very, very strong flag showing the people around me made it, so I didn't have to.

Women in America work so hard and not all of them get their shot. And I feel like I worked hard, but I also got my opportunity, which puts in a different category of blessings.

I don’t know what happened through the ’80s, ’90s, and ’00s that took feminism off the table, that made it something that women weren’t supposed to identify with and were supposed to be ashamed of. Feminism is about the fight for equality between the sexes, with equal respect, equal pay, and equal opportunity. At the moment we are still a long way off that.

Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition!

I think the problem is, exceptional women will always succeed. But there are plenty of less-exceptional men who succeed. Until we get the less-exceptional women succeeding equally, we do not have full equality.

I've always had that gratitude that I had the opportunity to pursue my potential. So I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver. We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time.

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.

Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.

I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.

In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.