Barbra Streisand Quotes

I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work that a woman can do well.

I prefer to be known as an executive rather than a girl.

I'm not a sexist. I believe if a man can to go work all his life, a woman can. Who am I to say, 'Don't do that because you're a girl?'

I'm not for women, frankly, in any job. I don't want any of them around. Thank God we don't have any in the Cabinet.

Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.

A man doesn't know what it's like to be a woman; it's that simple.

I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition, of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man?

I consider myself a rampant feminist.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

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

I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.

I've never for a second felt like my job has been more of a struggle because I'm a woman.

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.

Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence.

Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that's partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.

I don't think women in India are vulnerable.

I don't remember a single day during the time I was minister of gender, foreign minister, vice-president and president when I saw anything on the part of the men that indicated they were undermining me.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

I say that Pakistanis should not consider girls as weaklings.

The only way the gender divide affected me was the social things the younger guy executives could do with their bosses. I don't know what went on in the clubs, because I didn't go. I made sure my work was stellar, and that compensated for whatever social time we weren't spending together.

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.

Showing your femininity should help your career and not go against your career. Dressing like a man, using the suit to look powerful - that was the '80s, and that didn't help women.

Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.

Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?