Kelly Sue DeConnick Quotes

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

I don't like actors, I like women.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

I don't know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that.

I know, for me, that I have always been very conscious of how I dress when I go to the studio, I'm very conscious of my body language when I'm working - a lot of times, I'm the only female in the room. It's a very male-dominated profession. I'm always around guys. Guys are going to try you all day, and they're going to flirt all day.

Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it.

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.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

Nobody asks me about what male musicians I think about; I only ever get asked about females.

I'm in a male-dominated industry.

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

I love playing video games, but I'm regularly disappointed in the limited and limiting ways women are represented.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

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

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.

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

There are so many more roles for men than there are for women.

Far too often, I read a script where the girls are the girlfriend or the set dressing.

I'm so bored of reading scripts with these wonderfully complex male roles, yet the woman character just sits on the bed waiting for him to come home.