Simone Giertz Quotes

You have to work hard as a woman for people to take you seriously.

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.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.

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.

I walk into a room, and people see me as a director, not a woman.

I consider my position in the business world not as a woman but as a person.

I agree that at the end of the day, it's a man's world, but when I'm doing a film, I am working with the director, not a man or a woman.

I belong to a family where I think we're all fairly treated, boys or girls. Although I have to work doubly hard just to be able to be recognised. That meant long hours, but the hard work paid off.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

I have a job I'm pretty good at. I am in charge of things. I am on committees. People respect me and take my counsel. I want to be strong and professional, but I resent how hard I have to work to be taken seriously, to receive a fraction of the consideration I might otherwise receive.

You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

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

The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

I feel extremely fortunate that I can be a fighter pilot and not a female fighter pilot.

I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.

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.

I think women benefit from being in places and having positions where the quality of work is the criteria, not what you look like. Not every place is like that.

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.

The men I worked for didn't look at me as having any gender at all. They regarded me more as a workhorse.

I'm always asked about how women get on in the boardroom and my answer is always, 'Never acknowledge that you are a woman. Your gender is not the point.'

There's no prize for being the best woman.

Being taken seriously as a young woman is the biggest hurdle as I grow older.