Geraldine Ferraro Quotes

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.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

I think a lot of women are underestimated.

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

We are still living with a double standard. I know it. Every woman I know knows it, whether you're in the media as a woman, or you're in the professions or business or politics.

In countries like ours, women enter politics in mourning clothes.

I know that many honorable members have viewed the advent of women to the legislative halls with something approaching alarm;

a nation would not profit under a woman as its leader

We are not going back to where being a woman was a preexisting medical condition.

I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.

I think, being a woman, we got to prove ourselves twice.

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

There's no prize for being the best woman.

It doesn't bother me if I'm getting attention because I'm a girl.

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

Sometimes when I talk, I sound like a feminist because I get really angry when I hear certain things. For instance, a lot of families don't really educate their girls much while they educate their sons to the full extent. I think that's not fair.

A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

In Hollywood, women hate each other.

When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right.

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

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.