Lucinda Williams Quotes

I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.

I'm sick of the tabloids' saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don't like it.

Just by existing as men, we are automatically guilty of everything in some people's minds. And, on top of that, we've created a situation in the media where men are only allowed to talk about politics and sport.

To presume that my greatest achievement is that I dated someone famous twenty years ago is completely sexist and anti-woman. It's lazy, nasty journalism that makes me sad about our world.

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.

All men hate the nagging.

If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.

I'm really aware of the conversations that surround young actresses in Hollywood. I always get myself into a hole with these conversations, and I get weirdly quoted, and I sound militant and like I'm not thankful at all, and I'm so thankful of everything that's happening. But I'm an active observer of the machinations of this world.

Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life.

With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.

People expect me to be with some stripper... That's just the kind of woman I work with.

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.

I think that an actor is more likely to be forgiven in the public's eye than an actress.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

The media and press can be relentless, especially with women. Personally, while I take pride in my appearance and enjoy the compliments, when I'm on court, it is all about my game.

I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.

If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them.

The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling.

I don't generally give interviews unless I have to promote a play and had sworn years ago, having been bitten once too often, never to be interviewed by a woman again.

If I go out with my girlfriends, no one has an issue, but if I put up a post with a male friend or I'm seen chatting with a co-star, there is unnecessary speculation. What wrong am I doing that I'm being treated this way?

An ocean of ink - real and virtual - has been spilled critiquing the appearance of female politicians.

In the '90s, there was always this continuous pitting of women against each other in the media, trying to make them battle it out.

People like to watch surfing, but maybe the girls get the wrong kind of promotion and the wrong kind of press. I might be called a feminist for saying it, but it's like the girls are promoted sexually rather than what they're achieving.

Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over, and accept defeat? I hope not.