I don't think men respect women ... [ellipsis in original] I don't think they really respect their opinions. I don't think they re...ally respect their ability to do a job. And, therefore, when it comes to the business of hiring somebody, they're always sort of hanging back and suspicious whether the woman would actually be able to do it. Meantime, these people that are doing this to you are people that you swamped when you were going through school. I don't mean that in a bitter way. I mean this is a fact of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm the only woman reporter they have, so I get all the meat boycott stories and all the meatless food stories.... Actually, I've ...only cooked three meals in my life. The most uncomfortable place for me in the whole world is in a kitchen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... when you do get a job everybody says, "Well, they wanted a black woman," which necessarily puts you on a level where you have ...to prove yourself above being a woman and being black.... Now, I would say, in certain situations, it helped me simply because I was mildly attractive, not because I was black or a woman. That gets you more mileage than anything else.... God help you if you're not an attractive woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut i...s a long way from Edward R. Murrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prejudice against women ... is many, many times intensified against older women. You are viewed not as an intellect but as a body....... Astonishingly, even women's liberation has paid extraordinarily little attention to the older woman and to the fact that her job is limited because she is [older]. They say that women shouldn't be sex objects, but you damned well better be a sex object if you want to get ahead in television.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a girl who was running the traffic desk, and there was a woman who was on the overnight for radio as a producer, and my ...desk assistant was a woman. So when the world came to an end, we took over.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We're a Madison Avenue country. I'm not sure that we make a distinction between newspeople and celebrities. And I think there is a... distinction. The distinction lies in what you do every day--and what you do to get stories and how far you will go and how much you will dig for them. All the rest of the attention that comes to you because you're on the air seems to me an irrelevance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One day my mother called me ... and she said, "Forty-nine million Americans saw you on television tonight. One of them is the fath...er of my future grandchild, but he's never going to call you because you wore your glasses."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »