Quotes About Challenges

I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record.

I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.

Most people are weak and frightened, and run from anything which could be upsetting. Most people, also, are takers and not givers.

Going into therapy doesn't guarantee poop on toast.

Most women complain that there are no single, straight men left. I'd just like to meet one who's human.

The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.

I focus on a lot of women's issues.

There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife.

If a woman is successful, she'd better duck, because they'll be out to get her.

We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.

As we move closer and closer to a nonsexist world, women will have an equal opportunity as men to be rejected, embarrassed, and humiliated beyond all consolation.

Because I also teach college, I am around a lot of young women who are just starting out, and I often see them coming up against certain expectations that may be more gender-specific.

My favorite question that is asked only of women is, 'What do you do with yourself all day?' The only possible answer is, 'Make nuclear bombs in my bathroom. Just little ones, though.

Every single one of us who has been a Woman in Film for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase Women in Film.

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.

It's really hard to meet good women in Hollywood.

If women ran the world, we'd still be searching for the wheel.

I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

Women have a way of contorting things sometimes. We all have our moods, ups and downs.

Life's tricky for women because they have to make more choices than men. And yes, choice is good, but boy, you better be an expert choice-maker.

Comedy is quite a difficult place for queers and for women.

Wifehood and motherhood... are a bigger handicap than the average male genius would... essay to carry to success.

If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no civil rights laws in the country.

It can often happen that motherhood can really stop a lot of women in their tracks and I wanted to try and keep working through that as much as I could.