Sue Mengers Quotes

In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

Books written by boys are given very different treatment to those written by girls: they're even given very different covers. People also expect, in this YA-booming world, girls to be less experimental than boys: girls are achieving a lot of success, but they're confined.

I have never been good at doing impressions of women. Which is understandable. There's a gender issue.

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?

In so much SF, either gender roles are the ones we're used to in the here and now, only transported to the future, or else they're supposedly different, but characters still are slotting into various stereotypes.

I get the feeling that characters are written female when they have to be, and all the other characters are male, and it doesn't occur to somebody that the lawyer, the best friend, the landlord, whoever, can be female.

There are certain expectations placed on writers if other people have put a value on their gender. I'm aware of the hundreds of tiny differences that happen when people are seeing your gender before they see something else.

The majority of the film industry is, like, obsessed with a ridiculous gender binary and keeping with this stupid social binary. Like, who cares?

History suggests that opposite gender debates, unfortunately, are accompanied by a host of expectations. Each candidate must tread carefully or risk running afoul of the gender stereotype they are subconsciously expected to conform to.

I'm saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

A man doesn't know what it's like to be a woman; it's that simple.

I felt alien my whole life, but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

We are still vulnerable to gender-targeted marketing no matter how carefully we edit our children's bookshelves.

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.