Noel Clarke Quotes

Female-driven shows have to be every single thing and are constantly criticized in a way that male-driven shows are not.

I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their time on film.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.

My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.

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.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Seeing how dumb and stupid they often are, I just couldn't imagine minions being girls.

Not regarded as the equals of men.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes.”

If you are a man, you have to be like Joe McCarthy to be called “ruthless”. For a woman, all you have to do is put somebody on hold.

Nobody says 'a working man,' but they say, 'a working woman.' And there is still a strange connotation to that.

Everyone has been discriminated against or harassed - sexism is real.

It's not misogynistic to criticize a legendary female pop singer; it's misogynistic to think a legendary female pop singer can't handle it.

Women in Washington - and in positions of power anywhere - should be subjected to the same criticisms and held to the same standards as men. That does not include the assumption that any successful woman has attained her position through flattery, feminine wiles, or her ability to provide maternal comfort to a more powerful man.

I never realized how hurtful people can be. They hate me so much for being a female in a men's sport. And I'm just like, 'Really? It's 2016, people. Women can do anything.'

It becomes tricky if you ever try to partition off what might be seen as sexist criticism. To be honest, I just don't engage. The best way I can rebel against those notions is being competent, good at my job.

I hope that people realise pitting two women against each other is just silly.

Some of my contemporaries don't want to talk about the female problem because they feel like whenever they get a teaching position or an award, we are just being pinpointed, fitting into the model.

As female artists, we have to be constantly criticized for the way that we look, the way that we dress, on a whole other level that men don't have to face.

Any reasonable person can look at video games and see that we don't represent women well.