Gina Schock Quotes

The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

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.

Three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men. I’m a feminist in the true sense of the word. It’s about equality.

I'm just so glad that girl power is working in Hollywood.

We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.

It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.

There are women in every genre having a lot of success. Why not celebrate that?

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

Women play just as hard as guys do. We're just as competitive.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.

You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.

If we think that our daughters ought to be in Congress next to our sons, we'd better let our sons know that now, so that they get prepared to have women as colleagues.

I'm just glad that there's some diversity in the music industry with women so people know that you can be literally anything and still be able to make it.

We were the first all-girl band that wrote and played our own stuff. You know, the odds were really against us because rock has traditionally been dominated by men.

It's important for people to realize that music is gender-less. We are proving that every single day. On this tour, there are more women than men in the audience, and it's beautiful to see these girls own these hard-rock moments.

I'd like to be able to get more girls to play guitar. I think with a girl playing electric guitar, sometimes it's seen a bit like a guy doing ballet. All the people I learned guitar from have been guys. There are some great female players, like Bonnie Raitt and Jennifer Batten, but very few.

Imagine the day when girls everywhere won't have to fight for the right to be recognized for their great work or their contributions to society.

We're a band and we just happen to be chicks, that's the way we've always thought of ourselves.

Fifth Harmony are all feminists. It's our duty to reach out to people and let them know a woman can be just as powerful as a man can be.

If you go into the mainstream with a female perspective that seems to resonate with a lot of people, you have a political agenda imposed on you: you are told that you are a feminist.

I was lucky to grow up in the '90s, when we had just as many strong female artists as male artists. That's a world I would like to live in again.

Nations are more successful when their women are successful.