Koko Taylor Quotes

As women, you have to negotiate your way through a man's world.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

Women must become more conscious of themselves as women and of their ability to function as a group. At the same time they must try to wipe from men’s consciousness the need to consider them as a group or as women in their everyday activities, especially as workers in industry or the professions.

I'm personally fed up with people seeing women and girls cast as victims.

The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women of my own generation who were successful, intelligent, coming to power and suddenly in the public arena. I started to think about what they are allowed and what they are not allowed.

For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.

Clearly it's not easy for woman in modern society, no matter where we live. We still have to go extra mile to prove that we are equal to men. We have to work longer hours and make more sacrifices. And we must emotionally protect ourselves from unfair, often vicious attacks made on us.

Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.

We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.

The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.

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.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

I consider myself a rampant feminist.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

It's such a male-dominated industry. You can be a feminist, it's just difficult because it sometimes comes back at you.

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

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.