Andrea Leadsom Quotes

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

Women should not fall back on 'sexism' unless they really feel that it's happening.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.

I'll never forget when I was running, when I was knocking on doors for my first office as I served as a Cleveland city councilwoman and to have older men say to me, 'Can you do this and be a wife and a mother?' Excuse me? Women make the world go round. We multitask... But to have that kind of condescending question asked of me in modern times.

As I got older, I had to learn to not have people speak for me. It was the first time I recognized, 'Oh, sometimes people are going to condescend to me because I'm a woman, or sometimes people aren't going to give me opportunities because of the way I look.'

If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them.

The way my body is viewed in the world is different than a male body. People are going to write about the performance, but they're probably also going to be writing about what I was wearing or my hair, which just doesn't happen to men.

You can't say that we need to give women more roles, and then when we do, say that they're only there because men want to look at them.

I've gotten a lot of comments about how I look and I can't help but think, Is anyone listening to what I'm saying? If I were a guy, no one would be saying, 'Wow, look at those pants' or 'Look at those legs.'

Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.

Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.

Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

Once again, no one in charge had given any thought to the possibility that a woman would be involved.

It was not easy to get to where I am. My challenge is to learn to deal with the jokes that are common among men that I heard and continue to hear sometimes among men.

My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities.

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

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.