Susan Estrich Quotes

Have you ever seen a man carry a burden when there were a woman's shoulders near enough to shift the burden to?

Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend.

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.

Just because I'm a woman does not mean I have to deal with everything to do with food.

I understand I'm supposed to be feminine and dainty, but I'm not. There are two sides to the coin. People are more impressed with things that I do because they almost treat you as if you're handicapped if you're a woman... people can be impressed that I can play a few chords on the guitar.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

Women must pay for everything…. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but also, women get more notoriety when they crash.

The pedestal that women were placed upon often turned out to be a cage.

A man can add to his sexuality by being funny, whereas a woman can diminish hers. I don't know why that's the case: it's completely unfair.

Men don't wear high heels, and they don't make allowances for women who do. Tottering down the corridors of power in beautiful but crippling stilettos telegraphs your preference for style over substance.

My mom always had a softer spot for boys, as a lot of Irish women do. If you were a girl, you'd have to sing or wear a pretty dress. But boys could just sit there and be brilliant for sitting there and being boys. It makes you that little bit more forward. Pushy. I was singing, always.

I really feel like females have to go 50 extra miles. Not just one - 50 extra miles to be accepted or taken seriously.

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 my own life, I have noticed when I have been meeting directors, that the same sentence with the same inflection can be said by a man, like: "Get me this." But if the same thing is said by a woman, it's seen as harsh and unacceptable. That always fascinates me.

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

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

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

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

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

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.