Nita Strauss Quotes

The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment.

I am treated no different than the other girls.

If women want to be treated equally, then they can't ask for sops and whine about not being treated equally. All I'll say is no guts, no glory for men or women.

I want men to stop calling me a queen and treating me like an imbecile.

They won't take you seriously because you are a girl. These guys had to understand that you are just as tough as them, and you have to take them on.

Women absolutely deserve respect.

I don't need equal time, I am equal time!

If you're a progressive, you really should be a feminist because it's about equality, it's about respect, it's about making the best of the world that we have.

Women should not let anybody take them for a ride. If they face such things, they should talk about it.

I walked into an international economics tutorial, and the professor said, 'I don't know how to teach a woman.' I said, 'It's the same as teaching a man.' I just sat down, and he had no choice but to start teaching. When I handed in my first paper, I think that shut him up.

I've always wanted to be one of the guys, and don't expect to treated any differently.

I treat everyone with the same respect they treat me with. Just because I earn more money doesn't make me more special than them or give me the right to talk to them in a certain manner.

I've always treated women with dignity and respect.

I don't consider myself a feminist, but boy, I won't lay down and play dead, ever.

People hold my father in very high esteem, but what was amazing was that nobody looked at me as a woman; I was never made aware of the fact that I am a woman.

We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right.

There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate.

Men give us most rarely that which we really want, not favor, but - Justice. Nothing is easier than to coax them to pet us like children, nothing more difficult than to persuade them to treat us like responsible human beings.

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

I hold doors open for all the women. Men can open the doors for themselves.

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

I always see myself as, like, equal to everyone.

Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you.

I've never had any problem with criticism. I've given a lot, and I've copped a lot. But I believe I've got a role to play by insisting that women be judged by their contribution - not somebody's view of what they should be about.

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.