Eugenie Clark Quotes

The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is being a woman in a man's world.

I've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.

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

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.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

When I started at the Air Force Academy, I found out that I couldn't be a fighter pilot simply because I had ovaries. That was enough to make me go for it.

Women are capable of accomplishing just as much as men are but aren't always given the same attention and opportunity.

I don't feel as if anything that has happened to me in my life was sidetracked because I was a woman.

Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

Women all live a double standard, but this is actually sort of a beautifully grotesque parody of it. There's a weird kind of joy that I have in seeing [Hillary Clinton] trounce this essence of male bullshit.

For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.

When women criticize men it's called feminism. When men criticize women it's called misogyny

One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she is anti-male; they even whisper that she's probably a lesbian.

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, you are so afraid of people thinking you are weak.

I literally couldn't get anyone to hire me. Having a woman do sports was seen as too risky.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

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

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

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

Sometimes I try to sell shows with a female lead to networks, and that isn't something that's been a proven formula for them, so they reject it. I do feel like men get the funniest roles in movies.

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

If you're a man and you are confident and you are ambitious and strong, then you are a statesman and a leader. If you are a woman and you have those qualities, well, they have a not-so-flattering term for that.