Rajaa Habib Khuzai Quotes

The legal profession has been built by men for men in a man’s world. Women find it distinctly uncomfortable.

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

Forever behind a woman is the mediaeval English common law which places upon her the stigma of inferiority and bondage

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes.”

Do I think I am being held to a different standard than a man who would be in this exact same race with the exact same story? Might be? Yes. But that’s reality.

When men cut jobs, they're seen as decisive. When women do, they're vindictive.

You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.

My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities.

When a man gets up to speak, people listen then look. When a woman gets up, people kook; then, if they like what they see, they listen.

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That's what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

I think a lot of women are underestimated.

If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.

Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

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

Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.

We are still living with a double standard. I know it. Every woman I know knows it, whether you're in the media as a woman, or you're in the professions or business or politics.

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

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

For more than six thousand years the history of woman has been one of hopeless sadness. She moved only to the clank of chains, and her vain desire for better and higher things could not find expression, for woman was by force of circumstances inarticulate. Detraction of one sex and exaltation of the other became a habit of mind expressed in law, in religion, in literature as well as in the ordinary activities of everyday life.

Women are born, living their lives, and dying without the justice which they have been waiting for since the time of the caveman.