Susie Wolff Quotes

If I were a man, I'd be allowed to play roles that were compelling and drove an audience to an emotional response.

Merit should count more than academic background.

My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.

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.

I get asked why there aren't more female directors all the time. I'm kind of reluctant to talk about it. That's not because I think the question is irrelevant or stupid. It's just that there are so many mitigating factors.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

If being an attractive woman got you attention for directing, then the entire 'best director' category would be comprised of models. To me, that is just the most ludicrous connection that you could make.

No ugly woman can succeed in politics.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

It often means that a woman is hired because she is pretty, regardless of her qualifications; that a woman's job security is eternally dependent on how well she pleases her boss, and he often thinks sexual companionship is part of the job description; and that women are fired because they have aged or they are too independent or they say 'no' to sexual byplay

It's one thing to talk about lack of diversity and lack of representation. But that doesn't matter if you're not good at what you're supposed to be doing.

Women in Washington - and in positions of power anywhere - should be subjected to the same criticisms and held to the same standards as men. That does not include the assumption that any successful woman has attained her position through flattery, feminine wiles, or her ability to provide maternal comfort to a more powerful man.

I have many dear friends in the film industry, but finally, the roles come to me on merit, not because of personal equations.

There's no prize for being the best woman.

But many people doubt female riders because they say we're not strong enough.

Nobody wants to be in a room or their business to be funded because they're a woman. They don't want to be discriminated against because they're a woman.

Some of my contemporaries don't want to talk about the female problem because they feel like whenever they get a teaching position or an award, we are just being pinpointed, fitting into the model.

It sucks. When you're a woman in sports, people want you to show some skin.

When we see society telling women that they have a certain time, that they make women compete with each other, the older generation competing with the younger generation. They've made us believe that there's not enough men out there for us or that we're only hired because of our looks and not because of our abilities.

I was rejected many times. I cried. I was told that female actors are replaceable in films because they just stand behind a guy anyway. I'm still used to being paid - like most actresses around the world - a lot less than the boys. We're told we're too provocative or that being sexy is our strength, which it can be, and it is, but that's not the only thing we have. But women have incredible endurance and incredible strength. Your ability to deal with it is within you.

An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.

The fact that there has to be a man behind my success when I genuinely have worked so hard is frustrating.