Quotes About Challenges

The fact is, I am in my third marriage and I do not believe in divorce. But I was half the problem, I guarantee you. More than half the problem. I couldn't negotiate with the other women.

A woman's place is in the wrong.

So much is made of good, strong roles for women. Actually, it's really interesting playing vul­nerable people as well.

Women in business, women in employment anywhere face a very different set of challenges than their male counterparts.

People are calling a lot, sending scripts my way. Yes, it's wonderful because, let's face it, there aren't many wonderful scripts for women over the age of 10.

Men sometimes seem more ready to accept women as brain surgeons than as athletes.

Marriage is a big adjustment for anyone - male or female. There is no guarantee that a person who has become set in his or her ways can successfully make that transition.

I don't understand how women can manage to get back in shape with a new baby and a job.

Women don't get the same opportunities that men get in racing, so they don't get to learn race craft.

I've seen a lot of women give up after they've had three or four bad gigs in a row. It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

A lot of women get out of the business because it's so not family-friendly. And so women that could be in there making good women-roles don't do it, 'cause they're smart and get out.

So many women waited until later to get married and then even later after they got married to have children. And then they have problems, and it takes them five, six, seven years to have children.

We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert

We live in a very modern age and the dynamic of raising kids and being a professional are intersecting a lot more - especially for women.

Women now have to put so much attention into their careers, and not many families can pull off a single income.

The only bitterness I had is: Where is the conversation on gender? That's been going on since there have been men and women, and still we're not hearing about what they're going through.

Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.

I do not want these women-centric films, or... what's that term? ...mahila-pradhan films as everyone calls them.

As women, you have to negotiate your way through a man's world.

I've always thought men and women are not too well suited to each other. It's inevitable that they should come together, but, again, how well suited are they to live together in the same house?

There are generations of women who left the workforce to be moms, and their kids grow up, and they think, "Well, what now?"

Call it nature or nurture, there are differences in how men and women approach professional conduct, and facing these issues head-on will make us all more equipped to succeed.

Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.