Dee Dee Myers Quotes

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

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

It is a fight between those who are convinced that women are not qualified to be judges – you’ll hear a hundred justifications for this – and the few that are enlightened, convinced that women can be judges. But they are powerless.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

In this society, if a man is called a woman, that's the biggest insult he could get. Is that because women are considered something less?

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

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

When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy. Sometimes it doesn't stop there.

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.

I think a lot of women are underestimated.

Hmm, can I be obvious and say there is probably a double standard for male vs. female directors? Sadly, I think that's actually the case. And it probably stems from the fact that there are proportionately so many fewer women directors than men ones that each project is perhaps more closely scrutinized for its content.

Every time a male coach berates his players by referring to them as “ladies” or tells them to “hike their skirts” while playing, we’re perpetuating an atmosphere where women are not men’s equals.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

After Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, we were told, 'She's the first female speaker of the House, so whether we like it or not, we've got to handle this with kid gloves. Don't go after Speaker Pelosi. You can go after other people, but you'll be branded as mean and evil if you go after the first female Speaker of the House.'

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.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

If you yell about one woman, you're not a misogynist. If I yell about Michelle Bachman, that doesn't make me a misogynist. If I compare all women to Michelle Bachman, then I'm a misogynist.

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.

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

Gender-dominated environments are not good... particularly in the financial sector where there are too few women. In gender-dominated environments, men have a tendency to... show how hairy chested they are, compared with the man who's sitting next to them. I honestly think that there should never be too much testosterone in one room.

I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

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

Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.

We often hear of a male director directing a great indie and immediately being offered the next huge comic book movie. Rarely, if ever, does this happen to a woman.