Tony Robinson Quotes

I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.

We're starting to see [gender voting] gaps right down to races for dog catcher.

I always had more women working for me than men.

Economics drive the creative, and for a long time, movies about men were just considered 'movies,' whereas movies about women were considered niche and only appealing to women. This is to an extent still true, and what it does is represent movies about women as less profitable.

Most of the people we worked with were men. And the women were secretaries.

When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.

I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

There are less opportunities for women.

People are always telling me that boys won't go to girls' movies and vice versa. It's not true.

I believe that sexism in tech is a real problem.

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.

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into 'women's books' except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.

I'm a girl, so I've experienced dismissal because I was a girl or because I write about girls: my book with a guy protagonist is treated as more literary and worthy than my other books with girl protagonists.

I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists; you have definitely fewer women in that field.

There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue.

I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men; I never really liked reading books about the history of science, and I never really understood why.

There seem to be more women producers than men.

You will never see as many great women investors or traders as men. Period. End of story.

I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

The difference between working with a man and a woman... is immense.

The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They worked so well that they formed a very lucrative industry fairly quickly. But what worked for that demographic absolutely did not work for most girls and women.

I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.