Val McDermid Quotes

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

I'm so bored of reading scripts with these wonderfully complex male roles, yet the woman character just sits on the bed waiting for him to come home.

A woman's desire is either terrifying, or it's ignored.

In a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent.

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

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

I can't stomach most of the movies about women.

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

I always look for roles that make me feel good about being a girl. I have to say that there are a lot of roles out there that make me feel really bad about being a girl. You can imagine what the things are and I shall not go into detail.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and publicly disdained.

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world—except a woman-governed world.

Every woman should be filled with shame by the thought that she is a woman.