Karyn Kusama Quotes

I believe that sexism in tech is a real problem.

When I governed, the overwhelming mindset of the media was to dismiss out of hand any suggestion that anything happening to me was in any way related to gender.

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

Sure, sexism is not confined to the Conservatives. Harriet Harman has suggested that Gordon Brown didn't make her deputy prime minister because she was a woman.

At first, being girls got us a lot of attention. But no one would take us seriously.

When I joined Uber, the organization I was part of was over 25% women. By the time I was trying to transfer to another Eng. organization, this number had dropped down to less than 6%. Women were transferring out of the organization, and those who couldn't transfer were quitting or preparing to quit.

A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.

Truth: I loathe the idea of being hired because of my gender, and I shudder at the thought that one day I show up on set, and half of the crew thinks, 'Here comes the quota hire.'

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

The Screen Actors Guild numbers are frightening: Something like 90 percent of the roles are for men, 5 percent are for livestock and 5 percent are for women.

I'm a girl, so I've experienced dismissal because I was a girl or because I write about girls: my book with a guy protagonist is treated as more literary and worthy than my other books with girl protagonists.

You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.

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.

I think a lot of women are underestimated.

Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.

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

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

We have all the mistakes of one-sex legislation.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women.

What women by nature cannot do, it is quite superfluous to forbid them from doing. What they can do, but not so well as the men who are their competitors, competition suffices to exclude them from; since nobody asks for protective duties and bounties in favor of women; it is only asked that the present bounties and protective duties in favor of men should be recalled.

I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.

How come women are treated differently from men all the time? Not only handicapped people, but women - and handicapped women, forget it!

We all need permission to do science, but for reasons that are deeply ingrained in history, this permission is more often given to men than to women.

I really hate having to put 'female' in front of any title, because it puts us in some kind of weird category for handicapped people or something.