Ann Cotton Quotes

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, you are so afraid of people thinking you are weak.

I think any time you have a workplace that's heavily weighted to men just by the nature of what it is, the same way you can say PR or fashion is heavily occupied by women, there's always going to be a little bit of that sexism.

I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.

There's a lot of head-shaking and forehead-slapping when you start to realize just how deep-seated misogyny can be, how systemic and entrenched certain modes of thinking are that are still very much alive.

What women by nature cannot do, it is quite superfluous to forbid them from doing. What they can do, but not so well as the men who are their competitors, competition suffices to exclude them from; since nobody asks for protective duties and bounties in favor of women; it is only asked that the present bounties and protective duties in favor of men should be recalled.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

It's Russia. It's a patriarchal society. That's a fact you have to get used to. We have sexism. And it's widespread.

You don't realize it until you go out and take a look, but there are so many ways in which sexism is just allowed in our culture, not just in the entertainment industry. It's just allowed to be there, and that's not acceptable anymore. And I think it's really important to be very vocal.

The fact is, there is not now, nor has there ever been in the whole of history, a single country in the world where women have equality with men.

As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.

Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem books because she met a new boy

I believe that sexism in tech is a real problem.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

Sometimes I try to sell shows with a female lead to networks, and that isn't something that's been a proven formula for them, so they reject it. I do feel like men get the funniest roles in movies.

Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.

I don't have a steady relationship. That's something that women in politics deal with. For some reason, men in politics seem to have a larger charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me.

There's always been something deeply disturbing about the Abbott government's attitude to women.

We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's almost never used for boys - and that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce.

It is a difficult one, as you get scripts where women are just objects.

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

Books written by boys are given very different treatment to those written by girls: they're even given very different covers. People also expect, in this YA-booming world, girls to be less experimental than boys: girls are achieving a lot of success, but they're confined.

When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.

I have never been good at doing impressions of women. Which is understandable. There's a gender issue.

Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all.

You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.