Lisa Gardner Quotes

I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

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.

Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a novel. It's just a book.

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into 'women's books' except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.

In a general way, anything that affects men is taken more seriously than anything that affects only women.

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.

Music is a male-dominated field.

The Manchester music scene was very male dominated.

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

Gender-dominated environments are not good... particularly in the financial sector where there are too few women. In gender-dominated environments, men have a tendency to... show how hairy chested they are, compared with the man who's sitting next to them. I honestly think that there should never be too much testosterone in one room.

Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.

The Screen Actors Guild numbers are frightening: Something like 90 percent of the roles are for men, 5 percent are for livestock and 5 percent are for women.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

I'm a girl, so I've experienced dismissal because I was a girl or because I write about girls: my book with a guy protagonist is treated as more literary and worthy than my other books with girl protagonists.

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.

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.

I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.

I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

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

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

The brewing industry is a very, very male dominated industry. It's a male bastion.

Women are completely disadvantaged - despite what men will say. It is not a fair fight.

Men treat men differently than they would a woman.