Hannah Gadsby Quotes

Maybe women get to a certain age and they no longer have a filter; they're considered crazy people or something.

It often means that a woman is hired because she is pretty, regardless of her qualifications; that a woman's job security is eternally dependent on how well she pleases her boss, and he often thinks sexual companionship is part of the job description; and that women are fired because they have aged or they are too independent or they say 'no' to sexual byplay

Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

When I started out, there were three things that made film people look at me with condescension, I was young, I was black, and I was female. I have won a certain respect, but I think the film community still sees directing as a male job.

If a woman goes out with different men on different days, women only will question her character and call her all sort of names.

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

I have a theory that there's almost this primal viewpoint on women in the business, that once you're beyond childbearing age, you are perceived as nonthreatening, nonsexual, noncastable. Sure, I already knew it before I got into it. I just didn't know I'd end up making my living from low-budget, independent films.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

I think older women's voices are the most hated voices in the world - whether it's because people are reminded of their mothers or what, I don't know.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill.

I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in female performers after they hit a certain age, than the performers lose interest in the world.

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

I feel like women are asked their age more than men.

Women become invisible as they age; men become impotent.