John Updike Quotes

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.

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

The term 'glass ceiling' was coined in 1984. More than 20 years later, the ceiling has barely cracked. There isn't a single country in the world that has as many female as male politicians. In business, the situation is even worse. Its highest echelon - the board - remains a chauvinist's dream.

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.

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.

There were not a lot of women in the theater department - it was really run by men, and so the message was that women can be onstage, but women can't really be backstage.

Do I understand that I'm in a man's industry? 100%.

It is male-chauvinistic industry, and there's still a long way to go for the female-centric genre to come to the fore.

All writers are battling and fighting as to how a woman should be characterised.

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 think empowerment of women is exactly what's happening now, with women being portrayed as human beings, and not just black and white. Men can be the anti-hero all the time, and it's cool, but when women are, they're twisted or messed up or something is wrong with them. I think it's just about portraying women in the world as equals to men, and vice versa.

Being sensitive to the problem of women is just another symptom of the quality of movies: I don't think you can do anything that's very sensitive. Everything's sort of broad strokes and big gestures - adventure things that boys, guys want to see.

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

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

I've always been the only girl in those environments. It's comfortable for me - I prefer it, actually.

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

I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.

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

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.