Gita Gopinath Quotes

When women apply for a job, we ask ourselves, 'Am I qualified? Do I have the experience? Do I have the education? Do I have the abilities?' When a man looks at that job, he thinks, 'How much does it pay?' We need to stop second-guessing our abilities. We need to stand up and make ourselves heard.

I don't have much to complain about in life, because I've lived a very privileged existence and continue to. I just think, What if I didn't have that confidence or strength of character, and I was left with certain perceptions of what a woman's place is in the world?

I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.

Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it.

Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.

It's important to make women feel confident, because I think they are more important than men.

I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn't.

I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.

Women have to be able to look at themselves in the mirror as men do and say, “I see a presidential candidate!”

The result of coeducation shows clearly that there is no mental inferiority on the part of girls.

I never played a woman who was smarter than me.

It's never occurred to me - and I don't know what right mixture of upbringing this was - that my opinion wasn't as important as the alpha males or that I shouldn't try or that I wasn't the funniest one in the room.

If there was anyone primed to raise their kids feminist, it was me. My parents treated me no differently from my brother. I was raised to believe I was capable of doing anything I set my mind to.

I didn't want to be good for a girl: I wanted to be as good, if not better than, all the guys.

My parents are both massive feminists and always led me to believe that I could dream big and do anything that I wanted in my life, almost to a delusional degree.

I am here to say that there is no drawback to being a woman in business. But if you think it's a drawback, then it probably does work against you. It's like playing poker. People will look for your weak spot, and your weak spot is only what you allow it to be.

Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better.

I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

The clothes are not making me... If I like it, that's all that matters...It's not about the clothes. It's about how I am as a person and how confident I am.

Don't be afraid of girls. That is my big regret. Knowing what I know about girls, I should have just gone for it. Guys are such wimps.

One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.

If this is a man's world, who cares? I'm still really glad to be a girl in it.

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.