Eavan Boland Quotes

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

I think the media's a little frightened of women.

When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.

I kind of feel like every time I do a film, it is me and an entire male ensemble cast.

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty. You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.

If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.

You can't say that we need to give women more roles, and then when we do, say that they're only there because men want to look at them.

I think we're still struggling to find a way of depicting women that doesn't objectify them.

People expect to just hear something raunchy from a female - we're missing meaningful messages as women. We don't have enough stories.

There will never be a job that I do in this industry where I don't have to talk about being a woman. I will always be a female artist. People will put that in front whether you like it or not.

It is male-chauvinistic industry, and there's still a long way to go for the female-centric genre to come to the fore.

If you go into the mainstream with a female perspective that seems to resonate with a lot of people, you have a political agenda imposed on you: you are told that you are a feminist.

You know, sexism in the punk scene - or just in rock and roll in general - is so easily demonstrated by the amount of women or queer people that you see on stage versus the amount of cis males that you see on stage.

I don't understand this concept of women-oriented films or stories based on women, because nobody uses the term, a 'man-oriented' film. Why do you have to separate girls from boys?

A lot of people like to justify women's supporting role in sports media by saying, 'Well, they've never played the game, so they just aren't qualified to speak about it.'

I have been the only female minister in every government department I've worked in.

It's frustrating to see that people still get shocked when they see a woman doing action.

I think despite what we've seen on TV, people like seeing women and knowing about women's stories and their struggles and their truth. I think we've seen it in a lot of these shows - when there's a cast of all women, it does very well.

In music today, people are against females. We don't have that empowerment anymore. We don't have that voice.

I think it's hard when you're a woman because the music industry is way more masculine than feminine, so you have to make your own space and fight for it.

I'd like to be able to get more girls to play guitar. I think with a girl playing electric guitar, sometimes it's seen a bit like a guy doing ballet. All the people I learned guitar from have been guys. There are some great female players, like Bonnie Raitt and Jennifer Batten, but very few.

Even 'Posham Pa' is written by a woman so it's a perspective which I empathise with more.

It never really occurred to me to seek out a female influence, a female musician.