Billie Jean King Quotes

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

I don't know why there is a discrimination between women and men entrepreneurs. Those who are doing their job should just be seen as professionals and not women or men.

Every time a male coach berates his players by referring to them as “ladies” or tells them to “hike their skirts” while playing, we’re perpetuating an atmosphere where women are not men’s equals.

I never realized how hurtful people can be. They hate me so much for being a female in a men's sport. And I'm just like, 'Really? It's 2016, people. Women can do anything.'

Mia: I can't do this, I'm a girl. Gym Teacher Harbula: What am I? A duck?

How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister.

You know, I've always considered women to be people.

The problem I have these days is that women are often cast in a role - as a police officer, for example - and then are invariably perceived by the other characters as succeeding in a man's job, as if they're doing it in spite of being women.

Will I have to explain to my daughter that her brother is gonna make more money doing the exact same job because he's a man? If they both played sports since they were three years old, they both worked just as hard, but because he's a boy, they're gonna give him more money? Like, how am I gonna explain that to her? In tennis we've had great pioneers that paved the way - including Venus [Williams], who fought so hard for Wimbledon to pay women the same prize money they pay men, and Billie Jean King, who is one of the main reasons Title IX exists.

A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to the domestic cliche of the woman.

I'm quite a chauvinistic person.

If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

Women are still second-class citizens.

I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

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.

Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

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

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.