Whitney Cummings Quotes

Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

I had a respected SF writer call me 'girlie' and demand that I get him a coffee, before the panel we were on together.

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

I used to cry myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because of the way men leered at and disrespected me.

It's just a fact of life that I don't think I've ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don't know why.

Women are liked better when they lose.

I am saddened by the prevalence of powerful men disrespecting and objectifying women - and getting away with it for years.

Everyone has been discriminated against or harassed - sexism is real.

Twenty years ago, when I spoke about women getting harassed by politicians, people said I was getting personal. Today, the climate has changed. It has become an epidemic. It's happening in every place.

I'm used to seeing women being degraded, slut shamed, harassed for what they look like. Even the most powerful women in the world are measured by their appearance and constantly ridiculed for it.

Micro sexism can grow into a much greater problem.

I didn't need a harassment scandal to break out in Hollywood or misogynistic people in government to know they exist. Anybody who's a woman, a minority, or a thinking, perceiving male can see that it exists.

Fortunately, I have never been a victim of sexual harassment. But there have been instances where I have lost out on work or people have shown disinterest in working with me because I was unwilling to succumb to this unspoken understanding of patriarchy.

I have experienced sexism multiple times, and I'm sure I will a lot more.

Tanushree Dutta became Miss India as she slept her way to the top.

I'm called rude things, and people say nasty stuff. It's disrespectful, and as women we don't deserve that.

In our industry, everything is taken lightly. Guys say so many things, and if you react to them, they go, like,'We are kidding.' Things like 'You are looking hot sexy' are common.

Workplace harassment and gender discrimination exist in all spheres, not just films. I have been lucky enough not to face it, but I don't deny its existence.

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary.

I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.

Woman must be put back in her place. Man’s great error was to put woman on a pedestal, when she is far more at ease on her knees – where she belongs. … Woman must be reacquainted with truth and force. She must be reacquainted with truth through force. … She must be shown in no uncertain terms the absolute nature of the master/slave relationship endemic to the sexes.

The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.

I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.