Valerie Plame Quotes

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

I think the media's a little frightened of women.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

People aren't so interested in seeing movies about women's problems.

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

My strong sense now is that, as women have become more equal in society, so their depictions onscreen have become lamer and lamer and lamer, to the point that it's an embarrassment.

I think we're still struggling to find a way of depicting women that doesn't objectify them.

People expect to just hear something raunchy from a female - we're missing meaningful messages as women. We don't have enough stories.

The representation of women in hip-hop has long been so flagrantly unkind.

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

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

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.

There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

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

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

You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.'

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

Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.

I can't stomach most of the movies about women.