Lauren Mayberry Quotes

We've done a couple of women's mags, but we tend to talk about feminism and women in the industry, which I feel more comfortable talking about. It's a more valuable discussion than, 'Oh, you're a girl in a band. What hair conditioner do you use?' I use hair conditioner, and I like talking about it. But I don't want that to be the question.

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

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

Every single one of us who has been a 'Woman in Film' for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase 'Women in Film.'

A lot of times, I get asked, 'Do you feel you have a responsibility to young girls to be a role model?' I don't see that happening as much to guys. I feel like, just because I'm a girl, I'm supposed to take more responsibility? Is that how it works?

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.

I hate when I get asked, 'What's it like to be a woman in comics?'

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

In this industry, all the heads of labels are men, but every artist has to prove themselves, regardless of their sex. I have always been very vocal about the women sticking together.

Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.

I have often thought there has not been sufficient pains taken in finding out proper employment and diversions for the fair ones. Their amusements seem contrived for them rather as they are women than as they are reasonable creatures; and are more adapted to the sex than to the species.

Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

I thought that I wouldn't be able to make it because I'm a girl, but I think it was just a subconscious feeling. Pretty much every gig I went to was a band with four dudes.

A lot of people like to justify women's supporting role in sports media by saying, 'Well, they've never played the game, so they just aren't qualified to speak about it.'

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

All writers are battling and fighting as to how a woman should be characterised.

Whenever people say 'women's soccer,' I want to correct them to say 'soccer.' Every girl has had their sport diminished because they're girls.

The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

All religions have always hated females.

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

I always laugh when people call me a misogynist. I... love women! Everything I do is to impress women. And if I hated women, why would half my fans be women?