Lita Ford Quotes

They say women and music should never be dated.

I didn't think I could play in a band. It just wasn't an option - all band members were men, and bandleaders were men.

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.'

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

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

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to the domestic cliche of the woman.

I'm quite a chauvinistic person.

I've always thrown like a girl.

Society has always been male; political power has always been in the hands of men.

[Referring to Jesse Jackson:] ... one of that machismo group.

Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend.

That's the trouble with the women's game. Those women think they're men, and they go off hitting all over the place. They'd be better off if they'd played like women.

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.

No man wants to lose to a woman.

I should have known you'd side with them. It's some sort of of male bonding thing to think women aren't capable of running their own lives." He nuzzled the top of her head with his chin. "It's ego and sheer desperation. We have to keep you thinking we're the superior species." "News flash, Jack - no women on the face of earth believes that anymore." He trailed kisses down her cheek. "But men don't know women know that. We still live in our fantasy world, so don't muck it up for us.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

I look a little bit like Barbie and talk a little bit like Ken. It's easier for me to sit in the middle of the boys' club than to be surrounded by people concerned about getting their hair and nails done.

Men can't bear to see women cry.