Barbara Walters Quotes

I've always been sure of my vision, but I've been in meetings where men have been talking about me like I'm not there... I've been told I should be a certain way, and I wondered if that would have been the case if I was a man.

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.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

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.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bossy' and 'bossily competent' by a male journalist, and I thought, 'Gosh, 'bossy' is never used of a man.'

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.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.

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.

Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

It can be frustrating when you're put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in this reductive grouping, and you think, 'Gosh, that rarely happens with the boys.' I'm sure people don't say to Eddie Redmayne, 'How do you feel about Andrew Garfield?'

Female-driven shows have to be every single thing and are constantly criticized in a way that male-driven shows are not.

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'.

The more successful you are as a man, the more you're liked. And the more successful you are as a woman, the more you're disliked.

When a woman stands up and is strong and commanding, she's called bossy. When a man does the same thing, people say, 'They're strong.'

Women have to compensate more in the personality department in order to get the things that men get. And they don't have as much leeway for being divas or jerks.

If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

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

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.