Kim Shattuck Quotes

I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.

All my best friends are women except for one or two. I feel women are superior to men, and I love having them around. All that female energy is good for me.

I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.

I'd refer to myself as a feminist. I don't think my music is overtly rooted in feminism. I'm a teenager, and 95 percent of my friends are boys, and that's just the way I've always been.

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

I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.

Guys are really easy to get along with. It's a lot better than being on the bus with eight girls. But the worst part is being the only girl, because there's some days where you just wanna watch a chick flick.

It may be something to do with my having been to a girls' school, but I'm far more comfortable making male friendships than female ones. My friends tend to be men and their significant others.

Honestly, I usually have way more guy friends than girlfriends.

Being a guitarist was scary, honestly, as a girl in Nashville. It just felt like no one was gonna ask me to be in a band and play guitar, like I never was gonna get asked to do that.

When I started playing tennis in Class V, I used to be the only girl on the court along with 20-odd boys. So, I am used to being in the company of boys. In fact, I have very few girlfriends, and even my besties are boys; I find it much easier to get along with them.

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

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Women rule our lives, don't they?

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

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school.

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.