Nita Strauss Quotes

I've worked in predominately male sets my entire life. Shakespeare? Let's talk about that.

You know, I try not to think too much about women guitarists versus men guitarists; the world does that for me.

Being a female guitar player back in school wasn't great, and I had to change schools so many times. The male drummers and bass players thought it was cool, but male guitar players said, 'It's a guy's thing. You should be doing something else, like playing the harp.'

I guess on all Silver Jews records, it's extremely male-centric.

I thought that I wouldn't be able to make it because I'm a girl, but I think it was just a subconscious feeling. Pretty much every gig I went to was a band with four dudes.

It's a guy thing, playing the guitar. Being a female and trying to go to the same auditions as the guys, it's pretty hard.

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

I don't buy this premise that the number of minifigures needs to be an equal amount to be gender neutral. Nobody makes artistic products like that; nobody makes a movie and says there has to be equal numbers of men and women.

Directing is genderless. The only thing... I love men. I'm not being mean to them, but they can't hear you. I don't have a husband, and so I'm not really attuned to it, but I didn't know that they could not really hear you. Like, I'm talking, and they just walk away.

In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.

I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

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

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.

I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the 'Comedy Central Roasts' for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.

I don't write about too many male businessmen, and I'm not apt to write about too many female businessmen.

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

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.

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.

In any film, there are 10 male roles for 1 female role, especially in the action films. They're heavy with the guys.

I've never had a problem in a male-dominated sector. Results speak for themselves.

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.

And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.