Constance Baker Motley Quotes

If I were not a woman, I would not have been the vice presidential candidate.

The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

I've never had a problem in a male-dominated sector. Results speak for themselves.

I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists; you have definitely fewer women in that field.

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

I've worked with so few female directors.

Lack of female judges does not render the entire judicial process suspect…. Does every woman seeking divorce need to appear before a female judge in order to feel fairly treated? That's ridiculous.

Back in the day when I was on The WB, I may have only had one or two female directors throughout the entire run of a series.

When Peace Corps was first proposed, some in Congress assumed that only men would be volunteers.

There are five main barriers to women entering politics - I like to think of them as the five Cs: cash, caring, culture, confidence, and the closed club.

I think, as you move to the upper ranks of science - ranks being positions of influence and access - you see fewer female faces. And I think the basic reason is the same reason that you don't see a lot of female faces in Congress or on the Supreme Court or on the directing board of Fortune 500 companies.

I do all these panels where people are always talking about the lack of female directors, and I have a lot of opinions on that.

For thirty years, I've been hearing that it's getting better for women. And until I see statistical proof over enough years that that's true, I won't believe it.

When I went into psychology, there were very few women.

One of the big problems in Dail Eireann is the lack of women.

I had run other people's campaigns. I had been doing political activities for a decade before I ever ran for office myself. That is so much the experience of women of my generation. We always feel as though we have to bring so much more to the table, and that never stops the guys.

Politics is still the man's game. The women are allowed to do the chores, the dirty work, and now and then--but only occasionally--one is present at some secret conference or other. But it's not the rule. They can go out and get the vote, if they can and will; they can collect money, they can be grateful for being permitted to work. But that is all.

As F1 is a male-dominated environment, you have to prove yourself. And first of all that means being given the chance to prove yourself.

I think hip-hop doesn't give women as much of a chance as it gives guys.

'The Daily Show,' which was created by women, Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg, has earned quite a bit of ink for the fact that it's written mostly by men.

I don't want to be regarded as a female pundit. I'm a pundit.

There's no prize for being the best woman.

I hadn't looked at all the Nobel Prizes and thought, my goodness, there's no women. So it was a little bit surprising to me.