Naomi Weisstein Quotes

I have often thought there has not been sufficient pains taken in finding out proper employment and diversions for the fair ones. Their amusements seem contrived for them rather as they are women than as they are reasonable creatures; and are more adapted to the sex than to the species.

I have to break down the barriers as a female. I have to work 30 times harder just for respect.

I am far more pragmatic than the stereotype of the sex permits.

No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

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

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

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.

I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

When I started out, there were three things that made film people look at me with condescension, I was young, I was black, and I was female. I have won a certain respect, but I think the film community still sees directing as a male job.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.

No one knows what women want!

You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

I don't think women are dumb.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

I don't pretend there aren't biological differences, but I don't believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it's socialization, that we're socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

It is very difficult for girls. They're told to look one way, but to act another way.

Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.