Kristin Hersh Quotes

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 don't think women are dumb.

Overall, women are a lot more fun to work with than a bunch of men.

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

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

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

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

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

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

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'.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don't think that's true. I think that's one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.

I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their time on film.

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

I'm just waiting for the moment where it's accepted that women are just as sexual as men without women having to be overtly sexy just to prove how 'liberated' they are.

It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.

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