Patricia Schroeder Quotes

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

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

Politics is not the Business of a Woman.

Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend.

That's the trouble with the women's game. Those women think they're men, and they go off hitting all over the place. They'd be better off if they'd played like women.

I thought that I wouldn't be able to make it because I'm a girl, but I think it was just a subconscious feeling. Pretty much every gig I went to was a band with four dudes.

Being a female guitar player back in school wasn't great, and I had to change schools so many times. The male drummers and bass players thought it was cool, but male guitar players said, 'It's a guy's thing. You should be doing something else, like playing the harp.'

I can't believe this, I'm arguing with a woman!

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

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

A lot of times, I get asked, 'Do you feel you have a responsibility to young girls to be a role model?' I don't see that happening as much to guys. I feel like, just because I'm a girl, I'm supposed to take more responsibility? Is that how it works?

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

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.

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.

A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to the domestic cliche of the woman.

I'm quite a chauvinistic person.

Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of?

If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.

Hey, a woman changed her mind - what else is new?

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

It didn't matter how good I was. It was always, 'You're a girl. You can't play with the guys.' It's always been motivation for me.