Paula Broadwell Quotes

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

People don't understand the tyranny of media. The few women that the media will allow in have to think about male approval and their own success - and their writing reflects that.

About 97% of the media is created by men.

There's this belief with no merit that media with women at the center applies only to women, but media with men at the center applies to everyone.

I think the media's a little frightened of women.

A lot of newsrooms have thought very carefully about how they cover race. I don't think the same conversations have gone on regarding women.

Constantly there's a credibility issue; you're judged on how you look. If you look good, people assume you aren't credible. It's a battle you'll always fight if you're on TV and a female.

Even though I don't agree with either Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann on virtually anything, I do think the unique scrutiny - because of their gender and highlighting the potential conflict between them is a product of the media's desire for juicy storylines. I think it's inappropriate.

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.

In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top.

Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes.

One thing I've always been concerned about is the objectification of women in ads, and that's one thing where I was like, 'Well, if I become a part of advertising, I could change that.'

Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

The [TV evening] news usually defines the candidate for the public.

Television is the medium through which 80 percent of the people see their leaders….They get all their information about their government and their leaders from television.

I met a lot of women in the military with Meg Ryan, and they were remarkably impressive: Competent and strong and not versions of men, but versions of women. And they had stories to tell about how difficult it had been for them.

I understand the sensitivity of issues regarding women in the military.

When I governed, the overwhelming mindset of the media was to dismiss out of hand any suggestion that anything happening to me was in any way related to gender.

To make computer science more attractive to women, we might help young women change how they think about themselves and what's expected of them. But we might also diversify the images of scientists they see in the media, along with the decor in the classrooms and offices in which they might want to study or work.

I don't like tokenism. I don't like the idea that somebody should just appear at a press conference or in a media interview because they are a woman.

Being a young woman in Hollywood is intimidating.

We only see female protagonists who are likeable, with one cute flaw, such as adorable clumsiness. I'm fed up with it.

Women are so appallingly represented in movies.

Guys hurt us first! There's always more to the story. We don't have that on the radio. You can't turn on the radio and hear what's really going on. You're going to hear the perspective from a guy.