Sonia Sotomayor Quotes

There is part of you as a female - no question - that feels like you have to be overprepared and outwork the men because people are automatically going to look at you and say, 'Well, you didn't play football,' or, 'You don't know what you're talking about,' because you are a female.

I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you're about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right?

In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.

Gender-dominated environments are not good... particularly in the financial sector where there are too few women. In gender-dominated environments, men have a tendency to... show how hairy chested they are, compared with the man who's sitting next to them. I honestly think that there should never be too much testosterone in one room.

I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.

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 have never been good at doing impressions of women. Which is understandable. There's a gender issue.

I don't know why, but in my career and in my life, I often find myself in situations where I am the only girl among boys.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Even now I will go to, like, an industry event, and all the ladies will be over here and all the guys over here, and I will go to the guys' table and sit because I just feel I can have a much better conversation over there. And that's automatic; it's not prejudice.

Homophobia, transphobia, and sexism, they're all rooted in the same prejudice: the belief that one perception at birth - the sex we are assigned - should dictate who we are, who we love, how we act, and what we do.

I don't fear being judged as a misogynist.

In the modern workplace, sexism has adopted a more subtle persona; therefore, people can be accused of sexism where it's far harder to determine whether they're actually committing sexism or thinking in a sexist way.

#TimesUp is you can't hold it in anymore: Time's up! The doors have to give way. It can't be that every 27-year-old born into a male body is a designated genius. It can't be that the language used to review male and female films is different.

I think that why the research and the data are so important is because you become so used to seeing the world one way that you don't even notice anymore. [Gender inequality] has this invisibility.

When we get feedback on women, we ask, "Is that real or is that the gender bias at play?" Everyone could start doing that today and I think we'd see really big results.

I don't know if I'm sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women's bracket.

Every one of us is prone to implicit sexual prejudices, including women.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.