Abi Morgan Quotes

a nation would not profit under a woman as its leader

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

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

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

There seem to be more women producers than men.

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

As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment - and that I needed a TV show in my book.

Do you think it would be possible for women to make a worse mess of politics than the men have?

Women are simply not endowed with the same measure of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed.

We are still uneasy with women and power…For a man to be ruthless, he has to be like Joe McCarthy. For a woman, she just has to put somebody on hold.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.”

Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a novel. It's just a book.

I wanted to cast a woman as second in command. NBC said no way.

The intersection of being female and a showrunner carries difficult challenges.

I'd say it's far more challenging to be female and be a showrunner. People are not surprised to see a black person running this show, but the female aspect is the thing that I get asked about.

To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.

Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it.

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.

I think there is a rage against women. I've come to see that now although at the time I did not notice it. I was preoccupied with my teaching and my writing.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.

People don't always want to have females as leaders.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

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

I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.