Lizzie Armitstead Quotes

Hollywood is hard on women.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

As we all know, sexism in the workplace is a serious issue. It's something that needs active disruption and change.

Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.

Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys' network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women suffer fewer hazards.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.

Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems.

I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist.

Women artists are still treated differently from men.

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.

Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work …. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should pay for right to exist, to keep a position in whatever line, with sex favors. Thus it is merely a question of degree whether she sells herself to one man, in or out of marriage, or to many men.

Men trade unionists are accused of sex privilege and prejudice ... A belief in the divine right of every man to his job is not peculiar to kings and capitalists, and men in organized trades are not disposed to share these advantages with a host of women competitors.

Men have no idea how much more difficult it is for women in the rock and roll industry, and while we are trying to give birth, breastfeed, all they do is have a good time.

I've experienced a lot of sexism in football.

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