Maria Taylor Quotes

Women in business are talented leaders who can share their skills as trainers, mentors and advocates.

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

My mission in life is to assist women in social and political empowerment through business and education.

It's important to make women feel confident, because I think they are more important than men.

I applaud Women in Film - not only for celebrating the successes of women, but for providing a safety network to mentor women and to discuss the particular issues that arise in a very male-dominated industry.

Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power... I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right.

Starting early in life and in school, we need to ensure women develop the confidence and capabilities to work in a team that will allow them to reach the heights of leadership.

The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.

As a female founder and CEO, it is important to me to support other women as they build their businesses.

Whatever the reason, we are not doing a good enough job getting to women early enough in their careers, supporting them, and enabling them to pursue careers in directing.

You don't have a lot of women doing things for women, so when I'm rapping I gotta talk all this mess so the women can feel as confident and empowered as the men.

It is critical to create opportunities to identify talented women in business, then support them to develop their confidence to aim for the boardroom.

We need to create a society where girls and women are getting the same encouragement and support to build their careers as the boys and men are. From the start.

People want to put women in one box, and I'm interested in how women can be everything at once.

I've always said that I didn't want to be given a job because I was a female, I wanted it because I was the most well-qualified person for the job. And making certain that companies are going to move forward in that vein, that is what women want.

Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.

I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.

Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.

I've had women come up to me and say I was the reason they went to law school.

Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.

Gender equality cannot be achieved by cutting programs that allow girls to get the same chance to compete, learn, and play. The United States has had a solid history of commitment to its female athletes and expanding opportunity for women, and it is imperative that we continue on this path.

I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.

I think it helps in any comedy room for a woman to have very strong, respected convictions, because then it opens the door up a little bit for other women to have that.

When I got into the music business in 1976, there weren't many women on the roster. As a woman, you don't complain; you work twice as hard, and you do your job.

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.