Victoria Wood Quotes

In my 20s, I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

All my life, I faced sexism and racism and then, when I hit 40, ageism.

Fortunately, I have never been a victim of sexual harassment. But there have been instances where I have lost out on work or people have shown disinterest in working with me because I was unwilling to succumb to this unspoken understanding of patriarchy.

I've been told that I can't do things simply because I was trans.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

It was just really, really tough getting anything when you were a female. Basically, I just took advantage of everything I could. But when people are going to flat out tell you they're not going to hire anyone that's female, there's not much you can do about it.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

Being a woman is really crap.

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

People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

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.

The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

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.