Quotes About Challenges

"Legally Blonde 2" wasn't written specifically for a black woman.

"Southland" was not written for a black woman.

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

The war gave women like her opportunities, not a feminist movement, and if the opportunities dwindled after the war, she feels that it was because women didn't want them.

We women shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.

A lot of times [in the movie industry], women are relegated to playing the wife or girlfriend or daughter.

When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them 'disease of the week' movies.

Guys like you make life easy for some women.

Women: Can't live with them, can't bury them in the back yard without the neighbors seeing.

I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.

Over the last 10 years, women have stalled out at the top.

Men feel like they can be a professional and a father. For women it's "or." That's offensive to me. The concept that it's not possible is crazy.

I was not allowed to be an individual. I was black and I was a woman - and I was a black woman.

Men generally do not see women as competition.

Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find themselves in a sort of straitjacket.

Pregnancy is difficult for women but it is even more difficult for men.

The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.

The truth is women in the workplace don't have to fight nearly as hard for opportunities, or to dispel stereotypes, as they did before.

Women receive easily the most difficult assignments.

Dating black women will ruin your life

A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.

I think that in a country as successful as ours, we still have a long way to go in terms of parity for women, whether it's equal pay in the workforce or a whole host of other issues.

Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.