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With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.

— Glenn Close

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.

— Zaha Hadid

Call it nature or nurture, there are differences in how men and women approach professional conduct, and facing these issues head-on will make us all more equipped to succeed.

— Kathryn Minshew

I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.

— Zoe Lister-Jones

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

— James Callaghan

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.

— Lucy Walker

I've noticed over my 22 years of living that, yes, women can be difficult, and I call myself a ladies' man, thinking I have them figured out. But as men, we will never understand women.

— Bow Wow

It's not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It's not easy if those people aren't as perfectionistic as I am.

— Shakira

Confidence in a bloke would be arrogance in a woman. For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.

— Alice Lowe

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

— Anna Garlin Spencer

✗Opposing Perspectives

Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.

— Oprah Winfrey