Kristen Welker Quotes

Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

The whole issue of how women's management styles are viewed is an incredibly interesting subject.

I hate when I get asked, 'What's it like to be a woman in comics?'

Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?

Feminists rely on the similarity of the genders when it helps them, while they underline the dissimilarity of men and women if similarity creates a burden for them. This enables feminism to insist that men and women are exactly the same when it comes to who can be an airline pilot, but vastly different when it comes to retaining custody of the children or responding to a pass in the workplace.

I think women are very complicated human beings, and I think there's an oversimplification of women when you see them on screen.

I've never found it any tougher being a woman than a man, but I've always been the boss.

Just by existing as men, we are automatically guilty of everything in some people's minds. And, on top of that, we've created a situation in the media where men are only allowed to talk about politics and sport.

The minute you step into a job where you have to be at all tough and assertive, that's when the mischief happens. And you're not allowed to be assertive and feminine.

I suddenly became an unprofessional tantrum queen but people tend to forget that we associate these terms only with actresses. So many times, actors report late to the sets or don't even show up. But most women will tell you how we don't even have the luxury to be five minutes late.

From being on a panel show, they always need the blonde airhead sat in a corner they can make fun of, and I'm here to go, 'No, we're not the punchline.'

If you look at the role models that are out there, the women that tend to be photographed tend to be actresses and models, whereas the men are often in the media because of what they do in terms of business and sport.

Women in sports television are allowed to read headlines, patrols sidelines, and generally facilitate conversation for their male colleagues. Sometimes, they even let us monitor the Internet from a couch.

I was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.

It's hard for women every single day; we have to be nice, but not too nice, ambitious, but not too ambitious. It puts a lot of pressure on what we should and can be.

If women are all of a sudden complaining all the time about getting sent to Pakistan, then if I were an editor, I probably wouldn't send a woman.

I worked for 20 directors as a production designer, most male. I was on the set to witness firsthand a range of sometimes atrocious emotions - well-documented firings, yellings, fights between directors and actors, hookers, abusive things, budget overages, lack of preparation. A man gets a standing ovation for crying because he's so sensitive, but a woman is shamed.

Funny enough, the most discrimination I've ever gotten as a woman in this industry has been from other women.

Usually men, usually a guy, a casual fan of maybe the NBA and somebody who then watches the WNBA, their instinct is quick to kind of size us up or put themselves against us.

Roles for women need to be better written.

One thing is for sure: that women are far more compassionate, empathetic, sensitive, and emotional in comparison to men.

Patriarchy doesn't just make men out to be ogres. Women buy into the patriarchy as well, and women make those comments as well, like, 'Boys will be boys.' Women have to undo that stuff, too.