Dawn Steel Quotes

I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men.

I don't know why there is a discrimination between women and men entrepreneurs. Those who are doing their job should just be seen as professionals and not women or men.

The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.

The only moment I become aware of being the only woman in a meeting is when actresses are being discussed. If someone's critical of how a woman looks, they turn to me and apologize.

You have to work hard as a woman for people to take you seriously.

Men can be sex symbols and also earn respect for their professional accomplishments, and the same standard should apply to women.

I agree that at the end of the day, it's a man's world, but when I'm doing a film, I am working with the director, not a man or a woman.

I would much rather be acknowledged for the work that I do rather than being a woman doing the type of work I do.

I think there is a major difference between actors and actresses. All of the men I've worked with have been really difficult, whereas the women have always been extremely cooperative. I began thinking about that, and I think it comes down to a question of comfort with vanity.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

At the end of the day, no one asks a woman, 'Do you need a neck rub? Do you need a drink, honey?'

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

I know, for me, that I have always been very conscious of how I dress when I go to the studio, I'm very conscious of my body language when I'm working - a lot of times, I'm the only female in the room. It's a very male-dominated profession. I'm always around guys. Guys are going to try you all day, and they're going to flirt all day.

I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered.

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

Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man.