Salma Hayek Quotes

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.

It's not that I am saying that women and men are completely different. But I do think that if you are one of the only people around the table who is a woman, by definition, you're different.

I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons.

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.

There are not many roles where women are really active.

Sometimes I try to sell shows with a female lead to networks, and that isn't something that's been a proven formula for them, so they reject it. I do feel like men get the funniest roles in movies.

When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.

And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

There are things you maybe could get by a male drill instructor that a female instructor absolutely is never going to let you get away with. Women are harder on women.

Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.

By all measures men are the more violent gender.

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

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.

There were not a lot of women in the theater department - it was really run by men, and so the message was that women can be onstage, but women can't really be backstage.

Boys and girls are not the same.

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

After graduating, I was shooting as well as working as a key grip, and I often found myself the only female out of the whole crew, except for producers and the occasional AC.

As women and men, we're not primed and taught to feel that women are as inspirational as men.

An executive producer with an all-male writing staff once inadvertently revealed his deep, dark fear. While discussing a full-time position for me, he mused out loud, 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change everything.' Of course, what he really meant was: 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change me.'

I feel like in our society there is definitely still a lot of underlying sexism. It's funny how many guys are surprised when you pick up an instrument in the studio, or write your own songs.

It's frustrating to see that people still get shocked when they see a woman doing action.