Hannah Storm Quotes

You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.

There are things you maybe could get by a male drill instructor that a female instructor absolutely is never going to let you get away with. Women are harder on women.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

I think that often my work is obscured by my gender identity.

I don't feel as if anything that has happened to me in my life was sidetracked because I was a woman.

You can see in our churches most of the males are pastors. Most of the deacons are males. But if the woman withdrew her support from our churches, you'd have to close the doors.

Believe it or not, I don't collaborate with women, though my agent and editor are both females. For the most part, they do little editing on my characters.

In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a man's field. I wanted to prove I could do it. Then I found that when I did as well as the men in the field I got more credit for my work because I am a woman, which seems unfair.

When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.

Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.

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 are less opportunities for women.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

People are always telling me that boys won't go to girls' movies and vice versa. It's not true.

You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. In the past, few women have tried, and even fewer have succeeded.

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

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.

I'm a girl, so I've experienced dismissal because I was a girl or because I write about girls: my book with a guy protagonist is treated as more literary and worthy than my other books with girl protagonists.

We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's almost never used for boys - and that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce.

When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.

There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue.

I was so afraid that the athletes wouldn't talk to me because I'm a woman.

Gender injustice is a social impairment and therefore has to be corrected in social attitudes and behaviour.

I've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.