Jacinda Ardern Quotes

I walked into an international economics tutorial, and the professor said, 'I don't know how to teach a woman.' I said, 'It's the same as teaching a man.' I just sat down, and he had no choice but to start teaching. When I handed in my first paper, I think that shut him up.

I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.

After 'Kidulthood,' I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn't write women very well. I was very annoyed.

I feel like there is a lot of homophobia and misogyny in the music business, and I feel like I've gotten to a place where I've broken down a lot of those doors.

If you're good at what you do, it's going to quiet the people that think you're not good because of how you look or what sex you are.

I hold doors open for all the women. Men can open the doors for themselves.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

We're not going to pay attention to the silliness and the petty comments. And quite frankly, women have joined me in this effort, and so it's not about appearances. It's about effectiveness.

Don't treat me like a little girl.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

As a woman, I feel women get the shaft all the time.

Not regarded as the equals of men.

I want men to stop calling me a queen and treating me like an imbecile.

If she were a man, I would have knocked her flat. Instead I whispered to her, 'Liz, you are as ugly on the inside as you are on the outside.'

I love men. But evil men? I will not tolerate that. You don't deserve to be in my presence. If you're going to rule this world, I am not going to contribute anymore until you change it.

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.

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

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

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

We had so many obstacles. We had a lot of sexism and misogyny, there's a lot of things that were against us. But we've just pushed forward and we showed everybody.

Some of the perceptions from my professors were that I was less than or that I wouldn't be able to compete or wouldn't be able to meet the same bar as my peers. I don't want that for my daughter or for any of the girls who come into our program.

Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.

That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?

Why were the little girls all frightened To be just what they are The boys were told to ask themselves How high how far The girls were told to reach the shelves While the boys were reaching stars That's why little girls were frightened To be just what they are.

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