Nita Strauss Quotes

Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.

I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.

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

Most of my favorite artists are strong females.

I'm just really inspired by women and, for me, it's really important to work with someone who can relate to the female experience, especially in music.

We've done a couple of women's mags, but we tend to talk about feminism and women in the industry, which I feel more comfortable talking about. It's a more valuable discussion than, 'Oh, you're a girl in a band. What hair conditioner do you use?' I use hair conditioner, and I like talking about it. But I don't want that to be the question.

I know, in so many cases, a lot of the women who came up through the singer-songwriter, Lilith Fair era, the earlier Lilith Fair era, did say that we were influences on them.

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.

To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.

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

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

The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.

To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

I kicked the door open, and I'm gonna hold my leg in there. I'm keeping the door open for all these amazing female singer-songwriters that are coming out.

I've always been slightly hesitant about generalizing movies made by men and women being different in their nature; I think movies by each director are different. Having said that, I think that it's kind of disgraceful that there aren't more female directors.

I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.

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

Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.

I grew up in a home where I was literally told from a young age, 'No daughter of mine will ever wash a man's socks,' and I am pleased to say I never have. It was made clear that whatever I wanted to do I should aspire to, regardless of my gender.

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.