Noelle Stevenson Quotes

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

Sometimes I try to sell shows with a female lead to networks, and that isn't something that's been a proven formula for them, so they reject it. I do feel like men get the funniest roles in movies.

I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

I'm so bored of reading scripts with these wonderfully complex male roles, yet the woman character just sits on the bed waiting for him to come home.

The male domination and chauvinism of the comics form is either being wittily lampooned in 'Watchmen' or handily perpetuated, depending on whom you ask.

We live in a culture that does not encourage women to be epic heroes of their own Big Stories but the mothers and lovers and wives and mistresses and muses and personal assistants, the femme fatales and fantasies and manic pixie dream girls, in someone else's Big Story, and this someone else is usually a dude.

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

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

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.

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.

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

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

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.