Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

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

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

Sometimes, when you are one of only a couple of girls in an engineering class, you feel like you are representing women in general. That is a large burden to bear.

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition!

It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

I know so many women, comic geniuses. Where are the parts?

I think the media's a little frightened of women.

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

I just think, as women, we have to give ourselves room to be individuals. So when a woman makes a decision for herself, we as women shouldn't set those hardcore boundaries for another woman. Just like we don't want men setting hardcore boundaries for us.

It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.

It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women.

To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.

I've always been slightly hesitant about generalizing movies made by men and women being different in their nature; I think movies by each director are different. Having said that, I think that it's kind of disgraceful that there aren't more female directors.

You always hear about how women working together will catfight.

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

Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.

We have to start encouraging women to get into math and science early on in life... But to just say TechCrunch is perpetuating the problem because there aren't enough women speakers at our events is just a way to get attention and not solve the problem. So do we want to solve the problem, or do we want to just pick on me?

I think women should band together to get us more respect in all the businesses that we're in because, you know, if we turn 40, we're nothing and nobody. We all should band together and just say we're not gonna go down like that.

We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.

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

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.