Cynthia Carroll Quotes

I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.

I never felt any issues whatsoever about being a woman in Tech.

Back in the day when I was on The WB, I may have only had one or two female directors throughout the entire run of a series.

Do I understand that I'm in a man's industry? 100%.

I have been the only female minister in every government department I've worked in.

I have been able to enjoy the strides that others have made before me. I don't want to scoff at the idea that there was sexism, but I don't wake up in the morning and think, 'I am a woman in tech.' I just go to work, and my work is in technology.

I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm a girl!' I didn't get into my chosen profession. I wanted to be good at something.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood.

I've always been the only girl in those environments. It's comfortable for me - I prefer it, actually.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

The term 'glass ceiling' was coined in 1984. More than 20 years later, the ceiling has barely cracked. There isn't a single country in the world that has as many female as male politicians. In business, the situation is even worse. Its highest echelon - the board - remains a chauvinist's dream.

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

I know if I was a woman I wouldn't want to be a member of an organization that's mostly men.

I've never asked for special treatment along the way. And I'm never going to hide the fact that I'm a girl, ever. That's obvious, isn't it?

I've worked with so few female directors.

It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

If I were not a woman, I would not have been the vice presidential candidate.

We shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, the majority of whom are men, making decisions for women.