Betsy Beers Quotes

Every year there's five cop shows, five medical shows and five 'Law & Orders,' but when it's a show about women, they want to pit everyone against each other. I don't think they'd do that if it was a guy show. I think there's room for all of us.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

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

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day - respect for the elect few among whom they expect to consort.

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don't think that's true. I think that's one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

I won't say that women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout.

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

If I'm going to be honest about it, I think men get to do this sort of thing all the time. You look at countless performances by great male actors who get to play the whole gamut of human emotions. Women aren't regularly allowed to do that, and I don't know why people are so frightened by it.

So many times, you get sent scripts where it's, like, the token chick, where the woman is just there to serve the man in the film.

With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.

It's nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it's always about the males.

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

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 comics has this rap of being misogynistic, and that's certainly not untrue.

Back in the day when I started on the independent scene, guys would not watch women's matches, and if they did, they would do it to make fun of us.

I think that a big shame of how women are approached in business is they're oftentimes looked to for perspective and not implementation.

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

If women have become innocent victims, if women running around today are unable to protect themselves, if the picture that we're painting, if the caricature we are creating is of women that are helpless waifs who are at risk of predator men throughout the busy day, then we have to somehow involve Hillary Clinton in that recipe in truthful and honest ways. That, when it came to defending and protecting women who alleged that they had been abused or even raped by her husband, those women were nothing but scum who had to be dispatched and just swept out of the way.

I wish the women's rights folks would be more sensible. I think women have a great deal to learn, before they are fit to vote.

I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.

Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of God, to men.