Ally Carter Quotes

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

No one knows what women want!

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.

People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.

My general idea of the world is that I'm not different at all because I'm a girl. So I get blindsided sometimes because I forget that that's a thing.

When I was a young girl I had to deal with people calling me weird and strange because I spent so much time around boys playing football.

If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss.

It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.

People aren't comfortable thinking of women as people. Like we're not people, we're women, and that means something completely different, especially when you have power.

I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind.

Some days you just want to get dressed and go about your business. But if you're a woman, you can't, because there is no unmarked woman.

The gender question has always obsessed me.

I feel like all guys are the same.

You know, I try not to think too much about women guitarists versus men guitarists; the world does that for me.

We needed to be assertive as women in those days - assertive and aggressive - and the degree to which we had to be that way depended on where you were. I had to be.

I've never felt that being a woman was a competitive advantage or disadvantage.

There's no prize for being the best woman.

It's not at all a far jump to think that overall perceptions of gender - and what is and is not important in gender roles - would carry over from life to fiction.

I used to hate to be a girl.

I'm in favour of the old roles being blurred. The old division at school where the boys did metalwork and woodwork and the girls did needlework and domestic science is awful, really - and I'm glad it's gone.

There are some men that are very threatened by the fact that women play games nowadays.