Margaret Geller Quotes

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.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

When only one or two percent of filmmakers are female, you can't help but have some kind of bias.

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

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into 'women's books' except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.

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 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 would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.

Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.

For female directors, there's a whole other set of things we have to think about, particularly when we are casting men, because there are some actors who have never been directed by a woman. Crew members, too.

Music is a male-dominated field.

After graduating, I was shooting as well as working as a key grip, and I often found myself the only female out of the whole crew, except for producers and the occasional AC.

We have so many male superstars, but there are just a few female actors who have attained that status. It is not only because of the industry; it's in the society.

I can't count the number of times I've sat in a meeting where it's been 20 men and me.

In my own experience, when we have an open directing assignment of any kind, not just the big films, I would say it is the exception, not the rule, that there is a woman in the group of directors that we are interviewing. I think that's from the pool being so small.

Arguably, my student status and perhaps my gender were also my downfall with respect to the Nobel Prize, which was awarded to Professor Antony Hewish and Professor Martin Ryle. At the time, science was still perceived as being carried out by distinguished men.

When I first started at Sirius, I was the only woman on the whole station.

In high school, I didn't realize that science or engineering were male-dominated fields. When I got to college, and I was one of two girls in a 50-person class, that's when I realized that this was a unique decision I had made as a girl to go into engineering.

You're always one of the only girls, because there are so many male writers, and there are not enough good parts for women.

When I joined there was probably one woman in the CID office and one in the crime squad and just two of us on a team of about 40 or 50 people.

Most of the people we worked with were men. And the women were secretaries.

The Manchester music scene was very male dominated.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.