Cassandra Clare Quotes

Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of?

We are still vulnerable to gender-targeted marketing no matter how carefully we edit our children's bookshelves.

I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the 'Comedy Central Roasts' for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.

I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.

Just because we are women doesn't mean the only roles we can play are that of the finger-shaking girlfriend.

We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and ballet slippers on their covers, war machines and glittering gowns.

I think dancing is a man's game and if he does it well he does it better than a woman.

Most critics of gender division are women, and they're worried about girls and the roles presented for them by gendered entertainments. They are quite right to be. Telling girls that the cars and the guns are beyond their domain of expertise, and that they should content themselves with clothes and friendships, is limiting.

When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light.

I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.

Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.

I find it fascinating to see the fact that women want to buy things that they see on men.

I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.

Come on, you can't name a truck after a chick.

Television is often out ahead on social issues. With film, we've only recently proved that one of the oldest misconceptions in the book is wrong, which is the idea that girls will see films with boys as protagonists, but boys won't see movies with girls as protagonists.

All male roles are written in a way where you just hide what's going on inside you, and all female roles are written in a way where they expose everything.

An assumption underlying almost all comments on interruptions is that they are aggressive, but the line between what's perceived as assertiveness or aggressiveness almost certainly shifts with an interrupter's gender.

No, real men don't watch 'Deuce Bigelow.'

I don't believe that we - and this holds true for both genders - have as many choices as we seem to like to think.

I was a fan of the idea of Red Sonja, but the gender politics of the character made her hard to read, for me, at times.

My whole outlook towards women changed after 'Badrinath Ki Dulhania.' I am a boy who is brought up in Mumbai, and I believe I am open-minded. But I realised that there were so many things my mind was not expanded to.