Cynthia Robinson Quotes

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend.

Being a female guitar player back in school wasn't great, and I had to change schools so many times. The male drummers and bass players thought it was cool, but male guitar players said, 'It's a guy's thing. You should be doing something else, like playing the harp.'

I wasn't taken seriously being the only girl playing in band growing up.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Being a woman is really crap.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

I won't say that women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout.

I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.

Land belongs to the men folk.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

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

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes.”

Have you ever seen a man darning socks? So therefore a woman cannot be a combat pilot.

Both the Army and the Navy are closed to our sex. Nor, again, are we allowed to be members of the Stock Exchange. Thus we cannot use either the pressure of force or the pressure of money. We cannot preach sermons or negotiate treaties. Then again, although it is true that we can write articles or send letters to the press, the control of the press … is entirely in the hands of your sex …

There will never be any really great women writers in the theatre, because women do not know as much as men.

I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic. And emotional.

I don't know why there is still any barrier between men and women in terms of achievement and success.

Sexism is real.

Nobody would take me seriously. They would take one look at me and say, 'O.K., folk singer.' That was really hard for me, and I was angry a lot of the time. I did all these summer programs, and I never encountered another female playing jazz guitar. Ever.

I don't fear being judged as a misogynist.

Politics wasn't a traditional course for a woman.