Imogen Poots Quotes

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

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

With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

I'm not sure if I should say this, and it might sound arrogant of me, but I think there is a tendency to view female characters as consumer products.

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

If I have a male protagonist, it's a studio movie, and if it's a female protagonist, it's an indie movie. That's just how it is. It's not about the studios. It's about America and who goes to see movies. Women are interested in men and women, and men aren't interested in the woman's story. They just aren't.

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

I was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.

Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

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.