Lily Allen Quotes

It can be frustrating when you're put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in this reductive grouping, and you think, 'Gosh, that rarely happens with the boys.' I'm sure people don't say to Eddie Redmayne, 'How do you feel about Andrew Garfield?'

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it.

It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'

People stereotype female rappers a whole lot.

When it comes to categorizing people, men and women into a group, it gets to be very dangerous.

It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

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

I do remember when I first went into politics, one of my competitors asked me, 'Well, Jenny Shipley, who's looking after your children?' I don't think many of my male colleagues have faced a similar question.

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.

I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

The only moment I become aware of being the only woman in a meeting is when actresses are being discussed. If someone's critical of how a woman looks, they turn to me and apologize.

I used to be very interested in the history of women's rights in this country and in other countries. I tried to learn as much as I could about it, and more than anything, I would be called gay. It was phenomenal. But if a boy has something to say, he is appreciated; he's even popular. If a girl says something, it's instantly a threat.