Kellyanne Conway Quotes

We say women have made great strides: in biology, in many areas of chemistry, in many places, women are now the majority of medical students. But when I began my career, that wasn't the case. There were very strong stereotypes in biology and medicine.

Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.

There are still vestiges of societal limitations on women. I tend to think that has to do with opportunities that are available - it says a lot that it's still sometimes the best opportunity for a woman to be able to advance herself.

If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.

The Center for American Progress rates Maryland as the best state in the nation for women. I couldn't agree more.

My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

I think that's the great thing, ya' know, that women can do anything that they want now.

I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

I don't remember a single day during the time I was minister of gender, foreign minister, vice-president and president when I saw anything on the part of the men that indicated they were undermining me.

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

When I was made CEO of Reynolds the first time, someone asked me what it was like to be a female CEO. But I said, 'I don't know what its like to be a male CEO, so I can't really answer that question.'

It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.

Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality.

Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

There is still a perception that the way women are isn't necessarily what you need for the powerhouse start-ups.

I was the first woman to speak ever at the National Press Club, and they gave me a necktie.

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.

The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

There will never be any really great women writers in the theatre, because women do not know as much as men.