Safra A. Catz Quotes

If women want to be treated equally, then they can't ask for sops and whine about not being treated equally. All I'll say is no guts, no glory for men or women.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

To grant woman an equality with man in the affairs of life is contrary to every tradition, every precedent, every inheritance, every instinct and every teaching. The acceptance of this idea is possible only to those of especially progressive tendencies and a strong sense of justice, and it is yet too soon to expect these from the majority.

I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.

I've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.

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.

I have come far, but not far enough. It is still a man's world.

Inherent differences between men and women, we have come to appreciate, remain cause for celebration, but not for denigration of the members of either sex or for artificial constraints on an individual’s opportunity.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

Women must become more conscious of themselves as women and of their ability to function as a group. At the same time they must try to wipe from men’s consciousness the need to consider them as a group or as women in their everyday activities, especially as workers in industry or the professions.

Every now and then I am reminded that even though the need for being a feminist is gradually disappearing in this country, we haven't quite reached the millennium.

The progress of man has never been impeded by preconceived ideas regarding his abilities, his proper interests, and his appropriate activities. Woman has always been so hampered.

There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality.

There's no prize for being the best woman.

I'm in favour of the old roles being blurred. The old division at school where the boys did metalwork and woodwork and the girls did needlework and domestic science is awful, really - and I'm glad it's gone.

Women are capable of accomplishing just as much as men are but aren't always given the same attention and opportunity.

I believe it's on everyone - men and women - to knock down stereotypes and outdated assumptions.

My coach never looked at me as a female fighter, but just as a fighter, as someone he was training. I had to work just as hard as the guys, or harder than them.

I agree that at the end of the day, it's a man's world, but when I'm doing a film, I am working with the director, not a man or a woman.

We don't need to be feminist in my generation.

society, while willing to make room for women, is not willing to make changes for them.

... until opportunity is as free from sex discrimination as the right to vote finally came to be, no man has any right to criticize women for failure to measure up to men.

I am absolutely behind equal rights but I am also bridging the gap between cultural mentality and society's mindset as there are huge amount of gaps that need to be addressed and progress needs to be made. Yeah I am a feminist, it is not a difficult thing to explain.

Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.