Clairo Quotes

I am quite surprised, that with all my work, and some of it is very, very good, that nobody talks about The Miracle Worker. We're talking about Mrs. Robinson. I understand the world... I'm just a little dismayed that people aren't beyond it yet.

No ugly woman can succeed in politics.

For the longest time people were like, 'Oh you play soccer, what else do you do?' Cause they couldn't believe that you could just be women's professional athlete. That's really frustrating because it's almost devaluing your actual skill and ability.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.

You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.

The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

The world is divided into people who do things - and people who get the credit.

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.

Have you ever seen a man darning socks? So therefore a woman cannot be a combat pilot.

If a woman is super-successful, she is called a psychopath.

Nobody would take me seriously. They would take one look at me and say, 'O.K., folk singer.' That was really hard for me, and I was angry a lot of the time. I did all these summer programs, and I never encountered another female playing jazz guitar. Ever.

I hope that people realise pitting two women against each other is just silly.

No man wants to lose to a woman.

I think that if I was a white male people would get me more. I do. I think that. I think a lot of things would make more sense if I was a guy and if I had people supporting me and saying this is the greatest thing in the world.

We had so many obstacles. We had a lot of sexism and misogyny, there's a lot of things that were against us. But we've just pushed forward and we showed everybody.

There's an ingrained mentality in our culture that women aren't as good. Other places, it doesn't exist.

I have scored some big-time goals. I've done well in Algarve Cups. I've done well in World Cup and Olympic qualifiers, Olympics. In big games when we're playing top-five teams. But yet, you never see my face or my name out there. And it has frustrated me my entire career.

You see people - maybe in a frustrating fashion - that don't get embraced, when they should. You get some people who get embraced too early, and they tend to flame out, but it's really rare that someone gets lucky. It's usually a combination of a lot of talent and a lot of hard work.

I won't say that women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout.

This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it.

If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.