James Cleverly Quotes

Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

For the most part, it's straight white men running these labels and publishing companies.

I'm a major feminist. There's a real politic in life, where I've been in rooms where real decisions are made, and it's a lot of powerful white men. There are women in those rooms, but not as many as there should be.

I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.

I think that, by and large, the predominant voice we hear in rock music is a white male voice.

It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of the vote got away with calling itself the victim... Women are the only 'oppressed' group to share the same parents as the 'oppressor'; to be born into the middle class and upper class as frequently as the 'oppressor'; to own more of the culture's luxury items than the 'oppressor'..

Politics is a very male-dominated, male-driven profession. I was not just a woman but a young woman, and I suppose you end up trying to behave in a way that you think is expected of you.

Much of political decision-making concentrates power in the hands of those already inside the circle, who tend to be men. Excluding women may not be the intention, but when they are not invited into the room where decisions are made, you can see how it happens.

It's been a long time since universal suffrage, and I'm sick of the old white men running the show.

I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.

It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure. No wonder it has been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.

White men have too many chiefs.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

We shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, the majority of whom are men, making decisions for women.

… as long as men, even socialist men, even the best men in the world, make laws these will be to their advantage and to our disadvantage.