John Rocha Quotes

'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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.

What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession, then your image of what a good lawyer is a male image.

It's kind of too generic, a male lead.

Male playwrights, on the whole, are probably more interested in male characters. They need women characters to be the women in their lives or to be the domestic difficulty.

I've definitely had my struggles with the male species, as I'm sure most girls have.

You didn't have to read 'Playboy,' visit the mansion, wear pajamas, or even be straight: The effects of its ideas about women on the American psyche were totalizing. Women were inferior to men because, for 'Playboy,' they were scenery - pretty, passive, usually white, often blonde, there.

Why is being a woman so surprising? There are two sexes. A man and a woman. So, if it's not a man in a movie, what else was it going to be?

For years, humorous characters in cartoons have been almost exclusively male.

Patriarchy is bestowed on men at birth. Whether you want it or not, you have a privilege as a man, and you either fight against it and reject it by becoming a feminist man, or you enjoy the privileges that come with it.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

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.

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

Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God.

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

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?

Certainly, I am writing as a 21st-century woman, so I am much more inclined to view her as a three-dimensional woman. I think we keep coming up with this stubborn problem of a woman being judged by her appearance rather than her accomplishments. We are much more inclined to ask: was Cleopatra beautiful?