Dia Mirza Quotes

I kicked the door open, and I'm gonna hold my leg in there. I'm keeping the door open for all these amazing female singer-songwriters that are coming out.

I wanted to only collab with women for 'Lovers Holiday.'

You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.

To me, it's exciting that women are dominating the pop charts.

Most of my favorite artists are strong females.

Most of my favourite artists are women.

It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.

Women's music is underrepresented.

Women writers specifically... are the ultimate outsiders.

I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.

There have always been female artists and singers putting bands together all the time. But we were not always getting credit for that because we didn't know any better.

... to say that men are the only ones who can have this experience is ludicrous, and to say that for these reasons: "there will never be any really great women writers in the theatre," is equally funny because as a rule women know not only what men know but much that men will never know.”

I think that Linda Perry is such a beautiful example of strong female representation in the industry.

The Big Machine Label Group will continue to knock down doors to break female talent.

There was a time when we had a nice little run: Eve, Lil' Kim, Queen Latifah, Missy Elliott, Lauryn Hill, Remy Ma, Da Brat - it goes on. But what I noticed is that a lot of talented females in hip-hop came out of a male camp.

We opened the door for women rappers.

Every episode of 'The Conversation' was created to be a platform for women, to connect women, and to allow women's voices to be heard as much as possible. That's why I launched that show on a television network and online simultaneously.

I'm the benefactor of people who are doing so much hard work championing women composers.

I'm passionate about women's issues, and there are no outlets for that on TV, so I wanted to create one.

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

There's a strong wave of songs by women. Even if the songs are collabs, women have the intro and the chorus, which is what people can sing. We're getting the credibility, the spaces in the award shows, and people want to hear our point of view.

I know for a fact I've put in the same amount of hours as every up-and-coming male rapper right now, if not more. I'm a feminist with regard to my music and the music industry.

Beyonce, Stevie Nicks, Ani DiFranco, Cardi B - Women tell awesome stories.

I always think it's a little bit of a challenge when people sort of associate female artists as their own genre.

I know, in so many cases, a lot of the women who came up through the singer-songwriter, Lilith Fair era, the earlier Lilith Fair era, did say that we were influences on them.