Miriam Shor Quotes

But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

You get the older version of women that you've played before.

I walk into a room, and people see me as a director, not a woman.

Women are so complicated, it's unbelievable.

In general, the threshold for a woman becoming worried at how she's coming off in terms of asserting her power, that threshold is continually lower than it is for men.

If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.

I understand, as the young, attractive woman in film, that there's always going to be people seeking out extra salacious things for you to do.

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?

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

I just want to be a nice girl from the Midwest - I don't want to have to act like a heavy to be taken seriously, and I resent that I have to be so pushy and political sometimes just to do my job.

There aren't many roles that are interesting if you're a 40-year-old woman, unless you're Julia Roberts or Cate Blanchett.

It's almost ingrained in people that, just like you can't be a smart model, you can't be a good-looking cook.

Women blame men for their own singlehood.

I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate?

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.

No ugly woman can succeed in politics.

Women shouldn't be expected to only play nurturing, kind caretakers.

I have played a lot of roles in my career where I'm the sexual interest. I'm always having to fight that.

I feel like all guys are the same.

It gets frustrating when my male counterparts are questioned about their game or performance, whereas I am fielding questions on gender stereotypes and my ability to stay committed to the game on account of my gender.

When a woman stands up and is strong and commanding, she's called bossy. When a man does the same thing, people say, 'They're strong.'

Men always like what the ladies like.

Where a man is forceful, a woman is shrill.