Emily Atack Quotes

The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that needs women.

When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.

Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

There are not many roles where women are really active.

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.

There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.

Women are a great civilizing force in any society and when they are repressed things don’t work very well.

It is a crime against humanity that our women are confined within the four walls of their homes like prisoners. They should stand side by side with men as their companions in all spheres of life.

Afghanistan is doomed if women are barred once again from public life.

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

Society is really coming to a point where they're not asking if women can be funny anymore. We all know they obviously are.

Of course there should be women empowerment, women should get every right. They need to fight for it because the society doesn't look at women equally, and that's not fair.

Do we hate our women? I don't think so. In fact, Pakistan has more women representation in government than the U.S., and we have twice elected a female head of state.

Women face so much at various levels - it can be as simple as the common belief that a woman is incapable of doing certain things or the fact that even if you do something wrong to her, she won't speak up for fear of embarrassment... The time is here that we all should fight against such wrongs.

In my country, though it is very patriarchal and male-dominated, the public enjoys women-directed movies.

I think the term feminist is scary for women, because it means that you're extreme in some way, and I'm not extreme in any way, although I do passionately believe that a woman's role within any organisation is to assist and help other women.

Unless the issue of the empowerment of women is addressed, the practice of women being unfairly treated will remain unresolved.

I feel that women should start to get to be recognized more because for some reason not all men want to recognize us or not all people, but I think that's a minority. I think the majority of people are ready.

I think women are excellent social critics.

I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.