Iliza Shlesinger Quotes

No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.

When you see the way some people write women, especially in studio movies, it's like, 'Sorry! Sorry for being alive!' Women are so apologetic.

Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

I just think we tear down women in this country for all these superficial reasons, and women are so great and strong.

I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their time on film.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression - but women? I've been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I'm blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.

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.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

I’m furious about the Women’s Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That’s true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

We know in our society, women are valued for their sexual desirability and not necessarily for what they have to say.

I resent it when they write the part of a woman who's just a sexy femme fatale who seduces people to ger her way, perpetrating the myth that that's how woman have to operate, instead of using their brains or their wit.

I have always been appalled by the depiction of female CIA operatives.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you're a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that's so lame.

People like to watch surfing, but maybe the girls get the wrong kind of promotion and the wrong kind of press. I might be called a feminist for saying it, but it's like the girls are promoted sexually rather than what they're achieving.

You can't say that we need to give women more roles, and then when we do, say that they're only there because men want to look at them.