Susie Wolff Quotes

I spent most of my career in business not saying the word 'woman.' Because if you say the word 'woman' in a business context, and often in a political context, the person on the other side of the table thinks you're about to sue them or ask for special treatment, right?

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

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 have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.

With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.

I get the feeling that characters are written female when they have to be, and all the other characters are male, and it doesn't occur to somebody that the lawyer, the best friend, the landlord, whoever, can be female.

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?

I wanted to cast a woman as second in command. NBC said no way.

I don't want to be regarded as a female pundit. I'm a pundit.

I think it's good that we're talking about it, but I think there's still a gendered nature to the way that people see female directors' skill sets. And I think we need to keep examining that. I don't know if people know how complicated the issue really is.

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, you are so afraid of people thinking you are weak.

In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

A lot of times, I get asked, 'Do you feel you have a responsibility to young girls to be a role model?' I don't see that happening as much to guys. I feel like, just because I'm a girl, I'm supposed to take more responsibility? Is that how it works?

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

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.

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

As an agent, I functioned like a guy. But the fact that I was a woman affected everything.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it.

It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'

I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.

I hate when I get asked, 'What's it like to be a woman in comics?'

It is a difficult one, as you get scripts where women are just objects.