Patty Jenkins Quotes

I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

There are so many more roles for men than there are for women.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

It was not easy to get to where I am. My challenge is to learn to deal with the jokes that are common among men that I heard and continue to hear sometimes among men.

People ask me why I'm so hard on men. It's because they've gotten a really easy ride. And it's not that I think women should take over the world. But I do think it should be 50/50.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

American men are like women.

I don't know why women aren't allowed to have the same sort of breadth and scope and flaws of men.

When women do take on traditionally male subjects, certain male colleagues can seem affronted that a woman has dared to trespass on their subject. I could given you dozens of examples, but here's one: Max Hastings's review in the 'Sunday Times' in 2009 of Miranda Carter's book 'The Three Emperors'.

Every year there's five cop shows, five medical shows and five 'Law & Orders,' but when it's a show about women, they want to pit everyone against each other. I don't think they'd do that if it was a guy show. I think there's room for all of us.

Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that's going to shut down the world.

Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.

I don't think there should be anything that women are embarrassed to talk about in the 21st century, because for the last 100,000 years, men have said everything that's on their minds and described everything they have done.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

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