Anita Borg Quotes

The venture community is largely male.

There is a lack of female venture capitalists, and so there are fewer female-oriented businesses getting funded. Intel has done a good job of creating a message across Intel, and they are putting their money where their mouth is.

While it can be challenging for women with disruptive, technology-based ideas to acquire significant funding, in my experience, once I was able to raise that funding, I was met with droves of people offering to help me fulfill my dreams.

I don't write about too many male businessmen, and I'm not apt to write about too many female businessmen.

As a woman, it is so tough to grow your business. People are ready to hear all your creative inputs, but the minute you start talking about numbers and statistics, they look over your shoulder to see whether you have a man backing you up or not.

I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you're about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right?

I don't buy this premise that the number of minifigures needs to be an equal amount to be gender neutral. Nobody makes artistic products like that; nobody makes a movie and says there has to be equal numbers of men and women.

It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.

I've never thought of myself as a female engineer or founder or a woman in tech. I just think of myself as someone who's passionate.

I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.

Women are starting something like twice as many companies as men, but the money is primarily going to companies started by men.

We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and ballet slippers on their covers, war machines and glittering gowns.

I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

There is still a perception that the way women are isn't necessarily what you need for the powerhouse start-ups.

It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.

What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession, then your image of what a good lawyer is a male image.

If you want to take gender studies, that’s fine, go to a private school. But I don’t want to subsidize that if that’s not going to get someone a job.”

Gender discrimination has no place in our workforce.

I really did like 'The Wolf of Wall Street.' But not seeing women represented in that world, it definitely had less resonance for me.

When my novels are packaged as exclusively for women, I'm not only cut off from a vital portion of my audience but clearly labelled as an author the literary establishment is free to dismiss.

I'm not going to advocate for a female leader who I'm voting for solely on the basis of gender. And I think a lot of people feel that way.

There are probably industries where gender is more of an issue, but our industry is not one where I think that's relevant.

In the beginning, all of us got 'women type' stories. Like covering the first lady instead of the president.

Clearly, there is a gender imbalance when it comes to venture capital and entrepreneurship.