Reed Morano Quotes

A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

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.

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.

Nobody says 'a working man,' but they say, 'a working woman.' And there is still a strange connotation to that.

Years ago, I worked in a newspaper office, and there were men that would have fits of temper, and it was just accepted that that's who they were, and everyone would laugh about it, but if a woman got upset or angry, something wasn't right: she was 'hysterical' or 'a little unhinged.' It didn't have the same sort of connotation at all.

When women do take on traditionally male subjects, certain male colleagues can seem affronted that a woman has dared to trespass on their subject. I could given you dozens of examples, but here's one: Max Hastings's review in the 'Sunday Times' in 2009 of Miranda Carter's book 'The Three Emperors'.

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.

In some instances, a gender imbalance is indeed a manifestation of sexism. In others, it is not.

There's still a narrower band of acceptable behavior for women than men.

I really feel like females have to go 50 extra miles. Not just one - 50 extra miles to be accepted or taken seriously.

There's an ingrained mentality in our culture that women aren't as good. Other places, it doesn't exist.

I've been called pushy and aggressive and all the negative words that are rarely applied to men with the same traits. But it doesn't bother me.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

Once again, no one in charge had given any thought to the possibility that a woman would be involved.

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.

We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's almost never used for boys - and that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce.