Julianna Margulies Quotes

I do respect them; I have great respect for women. In fact, one of the reasons 'The Apprentice' was such a successful show for so many years, the audience of women was fantastic.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

I'd say it's far more challenging to be female and be a showrunner. People are not surprised to see a black person running this show, but the female aspect is the thing that I get asked about.

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

You always hear about how women working together will catfight.

In Hollywood, women hate each other.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

I love women but am aware we're dangerous and deeply competitive, although I gave up being competitive long ago.

Especially with women in music there is this unnecessary competitive element. And, like, why? Why do people do things where they try to put peers up against each other?

On 'Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce,' we have a mandate to hire as many women as possible, but particularly on a show that is about women and about progressive issues like that.

I hope that people realise pitting two women against each other is just silly.

In a lot of ways, I think television is better for women than film.

We have a lot of interesting, talented women at Fox News.

The intersection of being female and a showrunner carries difficult challenges.

Of course I am aware that there is a level of sexism in any large institution, but I find, in television and film, most of the producers are women.

It's actually kind of cool that women have taken to me. Because now I have a whole different demographic when it comes to the audiences. I have women who come out and support my movies, and that is a huge demographic for me, which is great because some actors don't have a female base at all.

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

Being in construction my whole life - I was trained as an architect - I always had to work with guys. And I always did my homework and then challenged them to figure it out faster than me. They don't want to be shown up by a woman.

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

What I really see myself doing is late-night TV. No woman has ever done it.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

I've never thought of myself as a female engineer or founder or a woman in tech. I just think of myself as someone who's passionate.

When I go to a web video meeting and look around, at least half the show runners are women. And a lot are actors-cum-writers who are frustrated with the situation of being a woman actor in Hollywood and have decided to create their own show.

Women are naturally competitive. That's what drives women to form cliques at early age.