Lola Kirke Quotes

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

The Runaways' audience was 90 percent male. That was kind of depressing...Why don't women-our own gender-come out and support us?

There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.

The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.

An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time.

I kind of feel like every time I do a film, it is me and an entire male ensemble cast.

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.

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.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

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.

Nobody asks me about what male musicians I think about; I only ever get asked about females.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

I think that still, for the most part, even in 2010, the vast majority of museum shows and gallery shows and gallerists are pretty much dominated by men. So having a sense of what women are up to, for me, frankly, is very, very important.

I just liked music, and I really liked rock guitar. I didn't think I was going to be a rock guitar player, because I was a girl. I would've been too shy to play with guys.

Music is a male-dominated field.

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.

We have so many male superstars, but there are just a few female actors who have attained that status. It is not only because of the industry; it's in the society.

The film industry is driven by male narrative. Heads of studios are often men, teeming with male executives everywhere you look, and so the narratives we have the screenwriters usually for male leads. Women tend to be second string: the girlfriend of, the secretary who becomes.

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.

A lot of times when I play a show, I'm the only girl on the bill. We're a minority, for sure.

When I first started at Sirius, I was the only woman on the whole station.

You're always one of the only girls, because there are so many male writers, and there are not enough good parts for women.

The Manchester music scene was very male dominated.

Tejano music was hard for us because I was a girl. My dad had a lot of problems while trying to set up shows for us or presentations because there are a lot of men who don't think that women can get the attention of the public. But ... wrong!

Unfortunately, music is a male-dominated industry. It's not that there aren't plenty of women working in the industry, it's just, the higher up you go... it's like how women who play in the WNBA make so little, compared to men in the NBA.