Nicholas Gonzalez Quotes

There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.

When a woman gets to 30, you ask her about having kids. I don't mind - all my friends are settled with kids, so I can understand people asking, and I even get it from relatives, but I'd be a fool to miss these work opportunities. And there's no time limit. One day I'll find my prince, but at the minute, I'm enjoying kissing a few frogs.

My biggest struggle being a woman in the workforce has not only been with my mother, my grandmother, and a lot of my girlfriends. When I'm working late hours, I'm almost punished for it by them. It's almost absurd that I would prioritize work over catching up with my girlfriends. If I were a man, that would just come second nature.

In this country, if a woman wants to work, she has very little choice. After you cross the age suitable for a heroine, there is nothing in the middle; the next thing you do is you become a mother.

When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

I don't know why in society when a woman demands perfection she is called crazy.

For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that's partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.

A high-powered, successful woman doesn't necessarily have the same support behind her that a man in that position would. Plus, she's expected to be a domestic goddess, as well as the best wife, mother, friend, and lover. But it's not just in politics: you see it in acting, too, and in journalism.

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

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 never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.

Women blame men for their own singlehood.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting.

Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life.

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.

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant.