Grace Chatto Quotes

Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.

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

It is obvious that discrimination exists. Women do not have the opportunities that men do. And women that do not conform to the system, who try to break with the accepted patterns, are stigmatized as odd and unfeminine.

I've always had really wonderful people around me. But early on, I remember I would walk into a session or go do something with some musicians, and they viewed me, basically, as their chick singer.

Once again, no one in charge had given any thought to the possibility that a woman would be involved.

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in being overlooked for certain opportunities.

I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

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.

Seeing how dumb and stupid they often are, I just couldn't imagine minions being girls.

Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?

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

I have to break down the barriers as a female. I have to work 30 times harder just for respect.

When I tried to get a record deal, only one label wanted me. The rest said 'oh, we've already got a girl with a guitar.' Can you imagine them ever saying that to a guy?

There are so many double standards that seem to be applied only to female MPs. I've had infinite comments about what I'm wearing when the focus should be on what I'm saying.

Women have to compensate more in the personality department in order to get the things that men get. And they don't have as much leeway for being divas or jerks.

Everywhere I went, people would tell me that trap and reggaeton was for men, not women. I wasn't being taken seriously, and I was often being told to do something else.

I don't like being put in the same category as people because we have the same genitals and boobs. Nobody is going to write "Lily Allen vs. Ed Sheeran." It just doesn't happen.

All sorts of articles and letters appear in the papers about women. Profound questions are raised concerning them. Should they smoke? Should they work? Vote? Marry? Exist? Are not their skirts too short, or their sleeves? Have they a sense of humor, of honor, of direction? Are spinsters superfluous? But how seldom similar inquiries are propounded about men.

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.

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

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.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.