Susan Sarandon Quotes

It's getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older.

I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.

Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power... I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right.

Age is definitely an issue for women in TV. There comes a point - especially if you're a woman - when your career just falls off a cliff. I'm not being self-pitying. That's just the way it is.

People aren't comfortable thinking of women as people. Like we're not people, we're women, and that means something completely different, especially when you have power.

Boyhood proves that there's still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you're under 40.

Here's something women need to stop doing to other women: We need to stop asking each other to lower our fees, cut our rates or work for free because we're members of the same sex.

As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.

I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.

Women's currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

I work in Britain, where women are allowed to look their age.

Females get hired along procreative lines. After 40, we're kind of cooked.

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.

I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career that spans a lifetime is a very hard thing to achieve, particularly as a woman.

I think women should band together to get us more respect in all the businesses that we're in because, you know, if we turn 40, we're nothing and nobody. We all should band together and just say we're not gonna go down like that.

Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'

I feel bad that I never discussed my mother's life and times as a career woman with her.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

I always like a woman in power in politics. I think they're pretty inspirational in terms of looks to begin with. It's very calculated.

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.

I have been around for a long, long time. I didn't make it 'til I was older. I went through the period when women were not getting signed, particularly if you were writing songs that were lyrically propelled.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment on become your superiors.