Laurie R. King Quotes

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've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.

Politics wasn't a traditional course for a woman.

There's no prize for being the best woman.

Women are capable of accomplishing just as much as men are but aren't always given the same attention and opportunity.

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.

Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

If you're a man and you are confident and you are ambitious and strong, then you are a statesman and a leader. If you are a woman and you have those qualities, well, they have a not-so-flattering term for that.

I don't think women are dumb.

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

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

I think a lot of women are underestimated.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Women are unfit for parliament and parliament is unfit for them.

I regret the trifling narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.

The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations.... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed.

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

Inherent differences between men and women, we have come to appreciate, remain cause for celebration, but not for denigration of the members of either sex or for artificial constraints on an individual’s opportunity.

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

a nation would not profit under a woman as its leader

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.

We are not going back to where being a woman was a preexisting medical condition.