Melinda Gates Quotes

I'd say I am partial to women.

I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.

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.

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

I don't know why there is a discrimination between women and men entrepreneurs. Those who are doing their job should just be seen as professionals and not women or men.

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.

Sexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring.

Why is being a woman so surprising? There are two sexes. A man and a woman. So, if it's not a man in a movie, what else was it going to be?

Women in Washington - and in positions of power anywhere - should be subjected to the same criticisms and held to the same standards as men. That does not include the assumption that any successful woman has attained her position through flattery, feminine wiles, or her ability to provide maternal comfort to a more powerful man.

Some of us do talk about women like objects, which dehumanizes them.

There's no prize for being the best woman.

I consider my position in the business world not as a woman but as a person.

Women need to double and triple men to demonstrate their experience and qualifications.

At first, being girls got us a lot of attention. But no one would take us seriously.

Misogyny is not something that you want to be a part of.

I think every industry is a male-dominated industry. Whether it is Tollywood or Bollywood or India as a whole, it is male-dominated. We stay in India, and it has been patriarchal society.

Up until recently, I've said, 'I don't notice the sexism in the industry.'

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.

Gender is not central to coding.

On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

I don't like being put in the same category as people because we have the same genitals and boobs. Nobody is going to write "Lily Allen vs. Ed Sheeran." It just doesn't happen.

I have always said, in my own rise in the leadership, please don't ever ask anybody to vote for me because I'm a woman.

I played on an all-boys team in the 8th grade, but they wouldnt throw me the ball even though I was on their team. One day I stole the ball from my own teammate and I made a basket. From that point on, everyone yelled Give the ball to the girl! I was the only girl on the whole league!

Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men.