Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes

The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

If we have a situation where a man is particularly graceful in a sport that rewards grace - say, for example, figure skating - why is it that we don't say to the man, 'Well, you're too feminine to compete?'... I don't understand why we don't find it offensive also to say to a women who's very strong, 'You're too masculine to compete.'

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

Conservative women in politics run a punishing gauntlet. They endure psychological evaluations and near-gynecological exams their male and liberal counterparts do not.

In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.

A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

I feel like women are asked their age more than men.

As a woman, I feel women get the shaft all the time.

Not regarded as the equals of men.

If you are a man, you have to be like Joe McCarthy to be called “ruthless”. For a woman, all you have to do is put somebody on hold.

We are still uneasy with women and power…For a man to be ruthless, he has to be like Joe McCarthy. For a woman, she just has to put somebody on hold.

You'll have a guy, and they're aging however they're aging, and nobody really cares. If you're a woman, it's different.

They will always assume that this guy - an upcoming actor, what if he becomes a star tomorrow? He would not work with me then... so I might as well choose to be nice. But women are not treated with the same attitude. Women they treat really badly.

I've encountered a lot of biases as a woman.

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

We've actually played badly, and people are saying, 'Ah, we're so proud.' Is it just because we're the women's team? If that was the men, you wouldn't be saying that.

Mercedes nursed a special grievance - the grievance of sex. She was pretty and soft, and had been chivalrously treated all her days. But the present treatment by her husband and brother was everything save chivalrous. It was her custom to be helpless. They complained. Upon which impeachment of what to her was her most essential sex pregorative, she made their lives unendurable.

I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

Gender bias is real. I was an early Barack Obama supporter, and I was even shocked at the way the media treated President Obama vs. how they treated Secretary Hillary Clinton. Questions that were asked about, what is wearing, how much does she weigh, about her hair were never ascribed to the president.

For the same work, dudes get paid more.