Suzanne Somers Quotes

Very few women are creative. I would not send a daughter of mine to study physics.

I never wanted to be ordinary. I never just wanted to do one thing.

I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.

Men think we can't do two things at once. They can't, but we can. Women are more resilient.

My interests and obsessions have always been so wide-ranging that I keep popping my head out of different boxes as much as possible.

I think it's important I stay connected to every part of my personality. I play basketball. I rock climb. I paint. I'm a little bit scattered, but it's so I can convincingly play all these characters.

I'm a lot of things at once. I want my audience to choose the side they like most about me.

Women are a dynamic economic force. We represent the largest consumer market in the world and are drivers of GDP. More and more companies recognize that when they support women as customers, employees, leaders, future investors and partners, they are adopting sound business strategies and advancing social progress.

Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional.

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.

Investments in women are positively correlated to growth, prosperity, stability, democracy, health - and vital to our national security. We cannot write off the talent of half the world and expect to confront our challenges.

In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in the U.S. I feel that successful American women are tougher than Swedish women - they create their space.

I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that I certainly believe in equal rights, I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so in a lot of different dimensions, but I don't, I think have, sort of, the militant drive and the sort of, the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that.

Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can be versatile if I want to.

I think that Saudi women are very powerful. And I think that Saudi men are the greatest support to Saudi women.

There is still a perception that the way women are isn't necessarily what you need for the powerhouse start-ups.

If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.

In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.

Well, I've always been eclectic.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.