Kelly Sue DeConnick Quotes

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.

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

I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

Guys who go on and on about loving women usually don't.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

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.

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.

Hipster Sexism consists of the objectification of women but in a manner that uses mockery, quotation marks, and paradox: the stuff you learned about in literature class. As funny as Dunham's 'Girls' is, it can definitely border on Hipster Sexism.

I like women. I like them so much, I think every man should own two.

I had such a lack of respect for women that I just treated them as a hobby, trying to live up to the supposed image of Jack Nicholson and all those guys who were womanizers.

I was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.

Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.

The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

I never say 'nagging.' I think that 'nagging' is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

The left-wing thinkers and intellectuals have been more misogynist with me than the army. They can't accept that a young woman is able to think, and they underestimate the intellectual work and study I might have done. They ask who is the man behind me.

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

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

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.

It was not easy to get to where I am. My challenge is to learn to deal with the jokes that are common among men that I heard and continue to hear sometimes among men.

There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

You can get a man's attention if you got a pair of boobs and a butt. I hate to simplify them down so much, but I think it's true.