Nina Totenberg Quotes

Would I like to see more women in the courts? Yep.

When I stepped into the Lifetime role in 2010, I did a listening tour of what was going on for women in this country. There was such a parallel in Hollywood with women talking about how there are stories that are not getting made and that talented young women are not getting the opportunity to direct and write.

To be honest, women just make us smarter. They make us better. I've noticed that in my workplace. I've noticed that at home. I've noticed that in my past experiences in life.

You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge.

You ask how I feel to be the first female president in southern Africa? It's heavy for me. Heavy in the sense that I feel that I'm carrying this heavy load on behalf of all women.

We're making this as entertainment. But God willing, if this show stays on and people see a woman in that office for a while, I think it will help people become more used to it. It's certainly about time that we had a few female presidents.

We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!

I have no problem with women in the military, if that's what they want to do.

Personally, I'd like us to have a few more women on the 'Today' programme.

I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.

You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.

What's important is that I do my job really well, that I build great products and that I'm a great leader. All those things matter independent of gender. But I do think there's a responsibility for me to support other women at Google.

It's not often that a strong female role comes across one's desk, unfortunately, but it's getting better.

I think it will be great if we have more female directors in the world.

Women have always been a good influence on me.

Today, people like Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep have vowed to improve the opportunities for women, but those promises are still unusual.

I guess the more women are present and out there in life, the more their stories will be told. I don't know. Their stories have always been told on Lifetime.

I've just seen that there is a really amazing perspective that we're missing by not having more women directing.

After the #MeToo movement, I told my team to hire as many women as possible. So there are always a lot of women in my team. I talk to them and they read the script and come up with their own suggestions.

TV has always been a very strong and powerful medium for women.

If we don't start representing women properly on screen now, we're never going to change our opinion of them as a society.

Empowering women is one of the most important things we - and indeed, every business - can do.

I can't wait for the day when it is no longer newsworthy that a woman is appointed editor of a newspaper.