Marcia Clark Quotes

I just want to be a nice girl from the Midwest - I don't want to have to act like a heavy to be taken seriously, and I resent that I have to be so pushy and political sometimes just to do my job.

If we have a situation where a man is particularly graceful in a sport that rewards grace - say, for example, figure skating - why is it that we don't say to the man, 'Well, you're too feminine to compete?'... I don't understand why we don't find it offensive also to say to a women who's very strong, 'You're too masculine to compete.'

Seeing a woman project the kind of aggression that you have to project as a comic just rubs me wrong.

If you talk to a woman, she will give you at least five incidents in a day, 5-10 in a month, where she had to work harder to prove herself because she is a 'woman,' maybe at a male-dominated work place or when she has to come across as a smarter woman if she is good-looking.

In general, the threshold for a woman becoming worried at how she's coming off in terms of asserting her power, that threshold is continually lower than it is for men.

I suddenly became an unprofessional tantrum queen but people tend to forget that we associate these terms only with actresses. So many times, actors report late to the sets or don't even show up. But most women will tell you how we don't even have the luxury to be five minutes late.

Gender perception can be a pernicious thing: Where a lack of warmth passes in a male, in a woman, it's deadly.

When a guy is perceived as macho, female editors aren't going to like it - because they all want to be men.

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

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

Being in construction my whole life - I was trained as an architect - I always had to work with guys. And I always did my homework and then challenged them to figure it out faster than me. They don't want to be shown up by a woman.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.

To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful of sounding that way than men are.

I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bonus, not a requirement, for men in the same position.

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it's not weird. But if a man does it, it's very disturbing. The way I'd describe it is like this: I have been allowed inside the house of womanhood, but I feel that they wouldn't let me in any of the interesting rooms.

As a female, you are often being asked by directors to be warmer, softer, flirt more, smile more etc... None of those things are bad, and obviously we are capable of a variety of human behavior, but it gets really old having to play into somebody's stereotype or ideal.

Seeing how dumb and stupid they often are, I just couldn't imagine minions being girls.

Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?

Women usually don't want to work as hard as a man.