Loretta Lynn Quotes

Women's music is underrepresented.

When I got into the music business in 1976, there weren't many women on the roster. As a woman, you don't complain; you work twice as hard, and you do your job.

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

There have always been female artists and singers putting bands together all the time. But we were not always getting credit for that because we didn't know any better.

... to say that men are the only ones who can have this experience is ludicrous, and to say that for these reasons: "there will never be any really great women writers in the theatre," is equally funny because as a rule women know not only what men know but much that men will never know.”

To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.

It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer.

Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.

I think, in general, more women need to be involved in music and in the industry - that's been an issue.

Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians.

The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record. Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

Women are born, living their lives, and dying without the justice which they have been waiting for since the time of the caveman.

Women were really the backbone of the civil rights movement, although the leadership was predominantly male. At the rallies, the audience was women and children. The platform was predominantly men.

Both the Army and the Navy are closed to our sex. Nor, again, are we allowed to be members of the Stock Exchange. Thus we cannot use either the pressure of force or the pressure of money. We cannot preach sermons or negotiate treaties. Then again, although it is true that we can write articles or send letters to the press, the control of the press … is entirely in the hands of your sex …

When I first came to Wall Street, not 100 women in the whole of the United States owned stocks or dared to show independence in property ownership. Highest positioned men scowled at any thought of women investment. For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.

Women are the most underutilized resource in the world.

Coming up as a female rapper - well, a female artist in general - everything is just so black and white.

I feel like there is a lot of homophobia and misogyny in the music business, and I feel like I've gotten to a place where I've broken down a lot of those doors.

'The Daily Show,' which was created by women, Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg, has earned quite a bit of ink for the fact that it's written mostly by men.

I'm the benefactor of people who are doing so much hard work championing women composers.

A few people have asked me about the women agenda on country radio. I can only speak for myself on this, and all I have to say is that I'm very grateful, and thankful, that country radio has been so automatically accepting, and supportive, of me and my music.

I know for a fact I've put in the same amount of hours as every up-and-coming male rapper right now, if not more. I'm a feminist with regard to my music and the music industry.

It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.