Stacey Snider Quotes

Women are simply not endowed with the same measure of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed.

I'm not involved with the female world.

I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.

When you're coming out new, it's harder as a girl to gain fans because most of them are girls, and they can be like, 'Do we like her?' If I were a boy, it'd be much easier.

If men are paid/praised more than women for the same work than it always pays to allow the man to have more freedom to pour himself into his work - think of athletes, actors over the age of 28, lawyers, accountants, college deans.

I can tell you that my experience has been that the gentlemen are more likely to come and ask for the order, ask for the raise, ask for the promotion, and that the women are less likely to do so.

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

If you're a man and you are confident and you are ambitious and strong, then you are a statesman and a leader. If you are a woman and you have those qualities, well, they have a not-so-flattering term for that.

There are certain things women are better at than men.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

Mentorship has been an excuse not to promote women.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

I'm quite a chauvinistic person.

I find that with some girls, the words 'work' and 'education' have gotten a bad rap.

I'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

Man's world is the planet of inexperience.

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

I have to tell you, though, the sexism in late night talk is so profound.

Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of?

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

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've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.