Cherie Blair Quotes

I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.

Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.

I was so intent as a young lawyer on beating the men at their own game that I didn't take any real maternity leave with my three younger children. It is only looking back that I realise I wasn't beating the system but reinforcing it.

What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

Every company I know is looking for more women at the table. Every board is looking for more women at the table. There's a reason why men want to understand the challenges women face, address them, because then they're going to be better hirers, attracters and retainers of women.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.

I'd love to work on a real girl piece with some fabulous actresses. I feel like I've worked with so many men.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.

In this industry, all the heads of labels are men, but every artist has to prove themselves, regardless of their sex. I have always been very vocal about the women sticking together.

When I came to M.I.T. in 1960, only 4 percent of the students were female. Today, it's about 40 percent of undergraduates. At Lincoln Lab, they had 1,000 men and two women. But we had a very good boss, and he treated us just like everybody else.

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

... to say that men are the only ones who can have this experience is ludicrous, and to say that for these reasons: "there will never be any really great women writers in the theatre," is equally funny because as a rule women know not only what men know but much that men will never know.”

I am often asked how does being a woman affect my work at Affectiva. Honestly, I don't think it does.

There have always been women who were successful against the odds. Now we need to change the odds so more women can be successful.

People say to me, 'Has being a woman helped or hindered your career?' And the answer is yes.

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.

I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.

I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.

The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

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