Erin Duffy Quotes

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

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

She is a great man whose only flaw is that she is a woman.

It's Russia. It's a patriarchal society. That's a fact you have to get used to. We have sexism. And it's widespread.

Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend.

Lately, I've been in meetings regarding a new script idea I have. A studio executive asked me to change the female lead to a male, because... 'Women don't go to movies.' Really?

Gender is a shackle.

There's an ingrained mentality in our culture that women aren't as good. Other places, it doesn't exist.

Paternalistic regulations often prohibit women from holding jobs in certain industries: In the Russian Federation, women cannot drive trucks in the agriculture sector; in Belarus, they cannot be carpenters; in Kazakhstan, they cannot be welders.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

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

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?

I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

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

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

There are some professions that culturally and sociologically take a long time to change, and because of that, there's still sexism in comedy audiences. We shouldn't blame them: I do it too. A woman comes on, and I feel slightly anxious. I'm a woman in comedy, and I do that; I think everyone does.

I understand I'm supposed to be feminine and dainty, but I'm not. There are two sides to the coin. People are more impressed with things that I do because they almost treat you as if you're handicapped if you're a woman... people can be impressed that I can play a few chords on the guitar.

I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

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.