Career Quote by George Gissing

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”

— Joseph Conrad

“Where men brushed me aside and ignored my requests, talents and opinions, women strapped on armor and waged war. Men barely acknowledged my efforts.…

— Rachel Higginson

Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.

— Horace Mann

“To be a woman is not a weakness.”

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

“Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.”

— Françoise Sagan

“What is assertive in a man can appear abrasive in a woman, and female leaders risk appearing too feminine or not feminine enough.”

— Barbara Kellerman

“When people talk about the ‘feminization of labor’, then, their discourse is often double-edged. The phrase is at once descriptive (work is generally more…

— Nina Power

“under the surface there is often ambivalence about women at work that makes their position vulnerable.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men. They were almost entirely men themselves, she thought,…

— Carl Sagan

“But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are more often…

— Colleen McCullough

“I define my roles as a woman, whether that means a mother at home, a CEO, both, neither or more.”

— The Thoughtful Beast

“Jean Railla puts it even more bluntly: "Workplaces are still very sexist--it's hard to be a woman in the workplace.”

— Emily Matchar