Margaret Bourke-White Quotes

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

If women want to be treated equally, then they can't ask for sops and whine about not being treated equally. All I'll say is no guts, no glory for men or women.

Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

Gender is irrelevant. Certainly the tennis ball doesn't know what the gender was of the tennis coach.

It's about hard work and not gender.

My coach never looked at me as a female fighter, but just as a fighter, as someone he was training. I had to work just as hard as the guys, or harder than them.

I agree that at the end of the day, it's a man's world, but when I'm doing a film, I am working with the director, not a man or a woman.

People hold my father in very high esteem, but what was amazing was that nobody looked at me as a woman; I was never made aware of the fact that I am a woman.

I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.

I think women have come a long way. Women are in positions not because they're women, they're in positions because they're intelligent and they should be equal to their counterparts and treated equally.

Excellence has no sex.

I belong to a family where I think we're all fairly treated, boys or girls. Although I have to work doubly hard just to be able to be recognised. That meant long hours, but the hard work paid off.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.

Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes.

I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.

I am a believer in people succeeding on merit.

I've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.