Dia Mirza Quotes

Workplace harassment and gender discrimination exist in all spheres, not just films. I have been lucky enough not to face it, but I don't deny its existence.

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

It often means that a woman is hired because she is pretty, regardless of her qualifications; that a woman's job security is eternally dependent on how well she pleases her boss, and he often thinks sexual companionship is part of the job description; and that women are fired because they have aged or they are too independent or they say 'no' to sexual byplay

Everyone has been discriminated against or harassed - sexism is real.

Sexism is real.

I've certainly been in situations where I've been rejected and endangered and had my humanity put in question - just as almost every woman on the planet has.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work …. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should pay for right to exist, to keep a position in whatever line, with sex favors. Thus it is merely a question of degree whether she sells herself to one man, in or out of marriage, or to many men.

Quebec women are treated like sows.

The oppression of women is based on custom and tradition—not religion.

… male religious leaders have had -- and still have -- an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter.

One of the major differences between gender discrimination and Racial or Religious Discrimination is that the with the latter the perpetrators fundamentally recognized that it was based on power offered moral challenges. However, men—the perpetrators of discrimination against women have mostly not even considered the moral aspect of it and perceived it as natural.

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.

As we all know, sexism in the workplace is a serious issue. It's something that needs active disruption and change.

I didn't need a harassment scandal to break out in Hollywood or misogynistic people in government to know they exist. Anybody who's a woman, a minority, or a thinking, perceiving male can see that it exists.

If someone is being misogynistic, you have to name it. It's not convenient to talk about discrimination, but if you don't do it, you allow it to exist. So you have to name it.

There is nothing wrong with Radha Ravi calling women to his office. There's nothing wrong if a man calls women to his office. There is something wrong if a man calls men to his office.

Sexism definitely exists - you see that in all walks of life.

I had to live through being a woman who thought men always had a one-up... I knew I didn't like it. I thought that's how it was.

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.