Hermione Gingold Quotes

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century.

My only concern is that the L.A. Times opinion pages, unfortunately like too many in this country, are dominated by men, and I'd like to see that change.

For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.

I don't like that politics is associated with middle-aged, greying men.

It's awesome that you have a female CFO and a female GC, but if you look at the investing partners, and it's 15 dudes, I do think those people are going to get left behind if they don't get with where the world is going.

It's not that I am saying that women and men are completely different. But I do think that if you are one of the only people around the table who is a woman, by definition, you're different.

If somebody is pointing out that there are advantages - many of them unfair - that go along with being male in our society and in our politics, then I completely agree.

About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The late Kenyan Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai put it simply and well when she said 'The higher you go, the fewer women there are.'

The only time I'm the only woman in the room is when I go to the leadership meeting.

I do not want to be president because I am a woman. Being a woman is important, but it's not the most important. I want to be president because we have the talent and the platform and the vision of a Mexico that we want for all Mexicans, not only for a select few.

The Screen Actors Guild numbers are frightening: Something like 90 percent of the roles are for men, 5 percent are for livestock and 5 percent are for women.

There are still so few female directors. There are far fewer writers than we'd like to see.

I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.

It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.

I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists; you have definitely fewer women in that field.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men; I never really liked reading books about the history of science, and I never really understood why.

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

To enter the world of politics, you have to be comfortable there. You must imagine that you belong there…. Women have to be asked to run more so than men. Not all, but generally.

It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of the vote got away with calling itself the victim... Women are the only 'oppressed' group to share the same parents as the 'oppressor'; to be born into the middle class and upper class as frequently as the 'oppressor'; to own more of the culture's luxury items than the 'oppressor'..