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- Nov 07, 2020
Few Women Quotes
Being one of few, across very different industries.
This 'few women' quotes collection reflects on scarcity across industries, from filmmaking to Wall Street, and how being one of a small number shapes behavior and expectation. See our Business quotes for related career reflection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Drama
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
My existence in Hollywood is a political statement, because there are so few women who are plus-sized or above a size 6.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started, there very few women at the managing director level and very few who had families, which is something that was important to me. So it's not like when I looked up I could say, 'Well, that's who I want to be.'
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.
- Technology
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- Nov 07, 2020
You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm sure it's more difficult for women to make movies, especially because, in general, the kind of movies women want to make aren't necessarily going to be blockbusters. But you know, there are so few women in so many positions of power.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Claude Cahun is a fascinating artist - one of the few women to be part of the surrealist movement, she and her partner Suzanne Malherbe took on men's names and made artworks that investigated female identity long before 'The Second Sex' or Cindy Sherman.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout my working life, I've been either one of very few women or the most senior woman in the place.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm one of the few women in science. I have pioneered that. One of the things I worry about is what that pioneering has done to me. I have had to fight quite hard most of the way through life.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a massive shortage of engineers and one of the big glaring holes is that we have so few women doing engineering - it's less than 10 per cent of the workforce.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up military but have met very few women that have a mission plan for when things don't work out. I attack everything like that.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lots of women candidates get compared to one another because there's so few women in office and positions in corporate America.
- Nov 07, 2020
There are woefully few women CEOs in the world, but there can be lots of them in films.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020