Steven Moffat Quotes

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

If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

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

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

For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception.

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.

I realized early on that I always hated girls who used their femininity to get what they wanted.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.

I'll never forget when I was running, when I was knocking on doors for my first office as I served as a Cleveland city councilwoman and to have older men say to me, 'Can you do this and be a wife and a mother?' Excuse me? Women make the world go round. We multitask... But to have that kind of condescending question asked of me in modern times.

I used to be very interested in the history of women's rights in this country and in other countries. I tried to learn as much as I could about it, and more than anything, I would be called gay. It was phenomenal. But if a boy has something to say, he is appreciated; he's even popular. If a girl says something, it's instantly a threat.

Women are not baby machines. There's a lot more to being a woman, so reducing them to that is quite disgusting.

Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

I've definitely had my struggles with the male species, as I'm sure most girls have.