Lesley Gore Quotes

All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.

I feel like there is a lot of homophobia and misogyny in the music business, and I feel like I've gotten to a place where I've broken down a lot of those doors.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

I won't say that women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout.

There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.

I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.

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.

A woman is but an animal, and an animal not of the highest order.

… male religious leaders have had -- and still have -- an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter.

Men: What gives you sovereign empire to oppress my sex? Your strength? Your talents? Observe the Creator in his wisdom; survey in all her grandeur that nature with whom you seem to want to be in harmony, and give me, if you dare, an example of this tyrannical empire.

To me, it's disheartening when you have someone take away everything you've done as a woman because of a man.

Why is it when a woman makes a film or a movie stars a female cast it is labeled women-centric because it is not white, male and middle-class men?

You always get the odd comment, along the lines of the women are not as good as the men, and I get called a lesbian.

The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public and said the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility, and then called her weak. It taught her that every pleasure must come as a favor from men and when, to gain it, she decked herself in paint and fine feathers, as she had been taught to do, it called her vain.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

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

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

Saying women aren't funny is now like saying Asians can't drive or saying black people have bad credit. It's just really, like, so obsolete.

When I started out, there were three things that made film people look at me with condescension, I was young, I was black, and I was female. I have won a certain respect, but I think the film community still sees directing as a male job.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.

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

The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.