Lynn Nottage Quotes

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.

There will never be any really great women writers in the theatre, because women do not know as much as men.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say we are ever cruel to each other... If this present woman must be crucified, let men drive the spikes.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

It's a struggle every day to get people to invest financially in portrayals of women that aren't satisfying to straight white men.

I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.

Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.

Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view.

Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist to keep women 'in their place.' To make sure that we're acting 'appropriately,' whatever that means.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

People aren't so interested in seeing movies about women's problems.

There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.