Devin Townsend Quotes

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

I have two children who are daughters, so female issues have always registered high on my scale of awareness.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

It is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

It didn't matter how good I was. It was always, 'You're a girl. You can't play with the guys.' It's always been motivation for me.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.

I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

If a studio sees that a female can bring in audiences, then they're going to make movies with that person.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

As women get more powerful, they get less likable. I see women holding themselves back because of this, but if we start talking about the success-likability penalty women face, then we can do something about it.

I realized early on that I always hated girls who used their femininity to get what they wanted.

The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

There is a sense that women are more anchored than men in our society.

Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.

I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.

When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.

Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.