Debbie Wasserman Schultz Quotes

Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of?

I think that an actor is more likely to be forgiven in the public's eye than an actress.

I've made a five-minute video on 'The Battering of Hillary Clinton.'

An ocean of ink - real and virtual - has been spilled critiquing the appearance of female politicians.

If you look at the role models that are out there, the women that tend to be photographed tend to be actresses and models, whereas the men are often in the media because of what they do in terms of business and sport.

There's a gender gap throughout television and it's very pronounced in morning TV since these shows are mostly meant for women.

When the pop culture is littered with TV shows that portray men as rapists, brutes and predators and women as the never ending victims no matter how much power they acquire, no matter how much the decks are stacked in their favor politically, they're still portrayed as weak and victims and not fairly paid and so forth. And all men want to do is get along.

We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's almost never used for boys - and that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and publicly disdained.

Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.

I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.

Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

Books written by boys are given very different treatment to those written by girls: they're even given very different covers. People also expect, in this YA-booming world, girls to be less experimental than boys: girls are achieving a lot of success, but they're confined.

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

If you're a man and you are confident and you are ambitious and strong, then you are a statesman and a leader. If you are a woman and you have those qualities, well, they have a not-so-flattering term for that.

If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy. Sometimes it doesn't stop there.