Laeta Kalogridis Quotes

In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.

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

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women.

Despite the fact that feminists say they're not getting a fair deal, women are still very powerful.

Men are born privileged in the scale of things - I'm generalizing, but it's true. Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.

Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.

For a woman emancipation means corruption.

Playing a woman in the tech world never crossed my mind as a thing until people started bringing it up all time. People act like it's unicorns speaking English all of a sudden.

I'm personally fed up with people seeing women and girls cast as victims.

The feminist movement is not about success for women. It is about treating women as victims and about telling women that you can't succeed because society is unfair to you, and I think that's a very unfortunate idea to put in the minds of young women because I believe women can do whatever they want.

Partly because women in the U.S. are better represented in the hierarchies, the culture wars over gender there have been particularly fierce.

In '39, they had no problem with it. But today, there's a huge issue with a movie that has no male movie stars.

You get angry and frustrated wondering, 'Are there enough parts for women?'

I don't want to be regarded as a female pundit. I'm a pundit.

We needed to be assertive as women in those days - assertive and aggressive - and the degree to which we had to be that way depended on where you were. I had to be.

I'm an ardent feminist.

We tend to kind of write women out of history.

I do all these panels where people are always talking about the lack of female directors, and I have a lot of opinions on that.

For thirty years, I've been hearing that it's getting better for women. And until I see statistical proof over enough years that that's true, I won't believe it.

I don't really consider myself to be a super feminist.

The problem, as a female athlete, is that you don't want to come across as negative and moaning.

There will never be a job that I do in this industry where I don't have to talk about being a woman. I will always be a female artist. People will put that in front whether you like it or not.

It is male-chauvinistic industry, and there's still a long way to go for the female-centric genre to come to the fore.

The #metoo campaign opened a particular window into the gender dynamics in technology, with many prominent women speaking out.