St. Vincent Quotes

There seem to be more women producers than men.

Numerically, half of our high-ranking government officials should be women, and half should be men. And yet the division between the sexes is highly disproportionate in favour of men.

When I joined there was probably one woman in the CID office and one in the crime squad and just two of us on a team of about 40 or 50 people.

I don't buy this premise that the number of minifigures needs to be an equal amount to be gender neutral. Nobody makes artistic products like that; nobody makes a movie and says there has to be equal numbers of men and women.

There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.

The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.

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

For us, gender didn't come up. We were friends who happened to play together. We never said, 'Gee, we're an all-girl band!'

I don't look at life in terms of checking the boxes, making sure you have enough women here and enough men there.

When I first started at Sirius, I was the only woman on the whole station.

In politics, during my organisational roles, I have never seen gender bias within my organisation.

One of the big problems in Dail Eireann is the lack of women.

If you look around Booking.com, it's a very gender-balanced company.

There's no excuse for panel games, other TV comedy shows, or even live bills to be made up mainly of men.

There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.

A lot of newsrooms have thought very carefully about how they cover race. I don't think the same conversations have gone on regarding women.

It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.

An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time.

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

People assume that because I'm a girl and my blog is hot pink that my readership is 90% women, but it's not. It's probably only about 65%. When I do tours, it's pretty much the same thing: it's about one-third guys.

There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.

I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.

I've always been the only girl in those environments. It's comfortable for me - I prefer it, actually.

Research conducted throughout the world shows gender balance in top positions contributes to improved competitiveness and better business performance.