Janet Varney Quotes

I was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man.

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

I've heard people say that 'The Blair Witch Project' is a feminist movie because there's a woman in charge and I've heard it called a completely anti-feminist movie because this woman screws everything up. Who cares really? It's just a movie.

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them.

I was used to being the only woman in everything... I didn't even think about it. Men were my role models - there's nothing wrong with that.

I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

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

It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights.

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

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

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of?

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Why can't a woman be more like a man?

I always laugh when people call me a misogynist. I... love women! Everything I do is to impress women. And if I hated women, why would half my fans be women?

'Little Women' has interesting gender connotations. There are generations of women who love the book. But there are a lot of men who think it's sentimental, gooey stuff.

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.