Billie Jean King Quotes

Periodically, 'The New York Times' runs a business news story lamenting how few women still make it to the top in the Wall Street boys' club. Could it be that women are choosing to be conscientious objectors in these wars of one against all?

When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.

The legal profession has been built by men for men in a man’s world. Women find it distinctly uncomfortable.

Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.

Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network. They have more companies they can get money from.

If you go to any boardroom... the women are, by far, outnumbered by the men.

I think in wrestling generally there is this good old boys' system. Where you always have a lot of men at the top and a lot of men making all the decisions.

Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy network may be oppressive to women, but it actually stunts men in terms of personal growth.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.

In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business.

Wherever you find 'men together' - writing the rules, as at exclusive golf or other men's clubs, businesses, and lodges where they wear elaborate robes and funny hats - women are kept completely outside if possible and, when grudgingly admitted, to highly restricted areas or token status.

I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

The double bind lowers its boom on women in positions of authority, so those who haven't yet risen to such positions have not yet felt its full weight.