Rebecca Traister Quotes

There was quite a ruckus about the seven ladies in their simple colored dresses. I was truly dumbfounded that I was, right then and there, deemed the biggest threat to black men since cotton pickin', and not all women were in my corner, either.

I realized I was a girl playing with all of these great musicians, but race and gender never did cross my mind, really, until other people started talking about them. They weren't really an issue for me.

It's okay in this country to be sexist. It's certainly not okay to be racist.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'

Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black.

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

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

When I started out, there were three things that made film people look at me with condescension, I was young, I was black, and I was female. I have won a certain respect, but I think the film community still sees directing as a male job.

Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media.

Being a woman is really crap.

I hate when I get asked, 'What's it like to be a woman in comics?'

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

There's definitely a whole double standard. I don't understand it. A guy can be sexy and good-looking, and it totally just enhances his credibility as an athlete.

What does America love more than one white male?

In Hollywood, women hate each other.

'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right.

What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That's what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less.

In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist.

A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.