Judith Martin Quotes

My own career started in New York at the 'Associated Press', a fast-paced news agency where we rarely had time for deep reporting.

I got into the Kennedy White House because at the time I was president of the Women's National Press Club, and they assigned me to cover the early days of the Kennedy campaign. Jackie especially. Everyone was interested in the family.

I remember the mid-'50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the U.K.

And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.

People aren't so interested in seeing movies about women's problems.

When you talk to women who were working as print journalists or in broadcasting in the '50s, and then you talk to women who were working in the late '60s, there's an enormous difference. There had already been a huge transition. Then, of course, you get well into the '70s and there were women with children working.

I studied journalism at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. I did my graduate work at Emerson in Boston, and I was actually a reporter for a year in New York and New Jersey. It dawned on me that I wasn't cut out for that line of work. I mean... there's a certain thing that really good reports have that I just didn't.

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

Andy Stasiuk was a newsman of the old school of front-page journalism - tough, knowledgeable, cynical, single-minded and fun. He covered the news as a happy warrior in an era of cutthroat editorial competition.

Washington newspaper men know everything.

In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are - about luck and identity and how the idea struck them.

I’m the only woman in the country who gets a regular pay check doing political cartoons. And there are no Blacks. I don’t know why …. Perhaps, women are used to taking care of pathetic things; cartoonists beat up on pathetic things.

... to say that men are the only ones who can have this experience is ludicrous, and to say that for these reasons: "there will never be any really great women writers in the theatre," is equally funny because as a rule women know not only what men know but much that men will never know.”

My dad was a news editor for a Brazilian news station, and they had offices in New York and London.

CNN is not and never will abandon our first and fundamental brand equity, which is news and breaking news.

I started out as a camera operator. I was doing news, and I was doing sports - baseball games and football games. And I was acutely aware of women not really being in those roles then.

Do you have a year to tell you what I have been through as a woman working in journalism? I went through hell. A lot of discrimination, everything you can think of.

Hillary Clinton had scheduled an interview while I was at the height of the Weinstein reporting, and her folks got in touch and said, 'We hear you're working on a big story,' sounded very concerned, and tried to cancel the interview.

Men have the power in everything: journalism, acting, direction; in banks, finances, schools. All the laws are made by men. Men think that women, when they're not able to procreate any more, become old. That is not true - they are still amazing!

'The Daily Show,' which was created by women, Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg, has earned quite a bit of ink for the fact that it's written mostly by men.

I came up in this industry at a time where you had to be a journalist. You had to break stories. You had to break news to elevate your career, to get to a certain point and a certain level in this business, before you even had the license to give your opinion, especially if you were a black man.

That's what I think a journalist from the '70s and '80s should look like - as though he has led a full journalistic life.

I think that if you're a writer and a woman, then you have to take humiliation very well.

I've been doing 'America's Newsroom' and lots of other news shows and writing over the years. That's my thing.

People say to me, 'Has being a woman helped or hindered your career?' And the answer is yes.