Liz Phair Quotes

I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist.

I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now.

If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.

I think there will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that an actress is more likely to protect her public persona, so to speak, than an actor would be.

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

Men and women aren't too dissimilar.

I've always had difficulties with female characters.

Republicans ask, 'Is it Miss or Mrs.?' Democrats don't ask.

I've spent my life arguing for greater respect between men and women and anyone who takes the time to read my books or listen to my lectures will realise this.

Whoever it is who's filtering stuff makes it seem like women want to be more than men. My understanding... is that we're asking to be treated the same.

I don't think anyone wants to look in the mirror and say, 'I'm anti-woman.' They don't see themselves that way, and you can't treat them that way. But you have to tell the truth.

It is time to recognize the variability of females, just as we do males.

Partly because women in the U.S. are better represented in the hierarchies, the culture wars over gender there have been particularly fierce.

I never saw gender as a barrier.

There are no boys in this game.

Every conversation we have as a band is about gender in some way, and it's been like that from the beginning.

My general idea of the world is that I'm not different at all because I'm a girl. So I get blindsided sometimes because I forget that that's a thing.

We need to teach boys to respect girls.

It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.

I believe it's on everyone - men and women - to knock down stereotypes and outdated assumptions.

Men and women aren't the same. And they won't be the same. That doesn't mean that they can't be treated fairly.

Today, it's about gender equality, not neutrality. Anyone who doesn't agree would be a bit of an idiot.

We like to imagine that women would do a better job of ruling the world - and I'm one of those optimists - but women aren't a superior kind of life form just because of our gender. We're awesome but not perfect. We're human. Just like men.