Stephanie McMahon Quotes

I spent most of my career, including my time at McKinsey, never acknowledging that I was a woman. And, you know, fast forward - I'm 43 now - fitting in is not helping us.

The most important thing is to have a more open and honest dialogue about gender issues.

I feel like, as women and men and people on the planet, you just have to do the best with what life gives you.

What are we doing that for in the 21st century? Why on earth would we teach kids that girls are less important than boys? It just made no sense to me.

I don't know if I'm sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women's bracket.

I recognize as a man there's a lot of things that I don't have to think about. But I'm thinking about them now.

I'm a poster child for feminism whether I like it or not, but I was resistant to the part of me that was a woman.

It seems to me to be kind of inescapable that one has to be interested in the issue of gender and gender equality. I don’t really expect any credit for going in that direction. It’s the only natural direction to go in. Why is it that some people don’t see that as so patently obvious as it should be?

I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

When it comes to categorizing people, men and women into a group, it gets to be very dangerous.

I don't want there to always be this stigma of the "female" artist. "Oh, what does it feel like to be a female doing something?" That hurts me.

One of the main problems of our time is that men are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called feminine, and women are deprived of their human qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

I never really think about my gender, first and foremost - until a door is closed to you. Until you can see a parallel opportunity with a man in a similar place in his career and you think, That opportunity is not open to me or my fellow actresses. That's interesting.

Mia: I can't do this, I'm a girl. Gym Teacher Harbula: What am I? A duck?

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

I would say how important it is that we stop teaching kids, from the beginning, that boys are more important than girls. It's the 21st century, you know, let's go here. We have to show kids that boys and girls share the sandbox equally and do equally interesting things. We're teaching kids something that we have to try to get rid of later on. Why not just stop filling them with unconscious gender bias?

I didn't want to be the girl in the group that couldn't do as much as the boys. I'm very competitive like that.

Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

In my opinion it is a grave error for women to feel that they must move only in women's interests... . What, after all, would we think if men all got together and kept doing things that were supposed to be in the interest of men?

How does it feel to be a woman minister? I don't know; I've never been a man minister.

I decided I was a feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word. Apparently I am among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, anti-men and, unattractive.

I wouldn't call girls a hobby. It's a pastime.

Biological sex should not determine what we are capable of, what we aspire to, what we do in our life.

Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?