Diane Wakoski Quotes

I've always been slightly hesitant about generalizing movies made by men and women being different in their nature; I think movies by each director are different. Having said that, I think that it's kind of disgraceful that there aren't more female directors.

It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.

To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into 'women's books' except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

What I had noticed is that there weren't a lot of women lining up to see a comic book movie, but they were going to line up to see 'The Devil Wears Prada,' which may have been something I wanted to address.

Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.

... to say that men are the only ones who can have this experience is ludicrous, and to say that for these reasons: "there will never be any really great women writers in the theatre," is equally funny because as a rule women know not only what men know but much that men will never know.”

Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

Every single one of us who has been a 'Woman in Film' for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase 'Women in Film.'

That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.

You ask how I feel to be the first female president in southern Africa? It's heavy for me. Heavy in the sense that I feel that I'm carrying this heavy load on behalf of all women.

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.

When I first started designing, all women were dressed like men, and I said, 'Hey, guys, let's be women, put the two together - it's not either/or. Let's celebrate our bodies. Our bodies are different.'

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.

Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.

I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.

In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.

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

I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men.