Kelly Sue DeConnick Quotes

I don't know if I would play a woman in space in a bikini.

I think that there's this idea - especially for male readers, but female readers as well, because we're all indoctrinated, right? - where there's this idea that if a woman is tough, it can only be in a way that is still sexy.

I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how hard I try and how talented I am.

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

I understand, as the young, attractive woman in film, that there's always going to be people seeking out extra salacious things for you to do.

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.

I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their time on film.

What I had noticed is that there weren't a lot of women lining up to see a comic book movie, but they were going to line up to see 'The Devil Wears Prada,' which may have been something I wanted to address.

I have played a lot of roles in my career where I'm the sexual interest. I'm always having to fight that.

Most female characters have either been the temptress - like a Betty Boop type - or the victim - like an Olive Oil type.

People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.

I think we're still struggling to find a way of depicting women that doesn't objectify them.

I think all things are political... How women are portrayed - that's a big thing for me. What is this role trying to say about women? Is this woman weak or victimised, and, if so, do we get to understand why?

Nobody wants to see a woman onscreen who is a wreck. That is pure, unadulterated, systemic misogyny.

I was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.

The female nudity in movies is always sexualized.

I’m very worried about the depiction of women on the screen. It’s gotten worse than ever and it’s related to their being either high- or low-class concubines, and the only question is when or where they will go to bed, with whom, and how many. There’s nothing to do with the dreams of women, or of woman as the dream, nothing to do with the quirky part of her, the wonder of her.

The thing that most distresses me is whenever I see things over sexualized, I worry about young girls. Some of the fall out of the feminist movement is that it made younger and younger girls more sexually available. It's part of the philosophy, be your own person and be free. But, girls are so over sexualized in this culture.

Guys are stimulated easily. They are easy to manipulate. All you have to do is wear a sexy outfit.

In advertisements for your favorite products, are women denigrated or objectified in some way? All of that is important. I would rewrite my kids' books, I would write it in the books for the babysitter!

If you’re not a sex object, you’re in trouble.

I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world.

The Grimm brothers always said that their informants were women, which is possibly not true, women of the people. There is the constant evocation of women's voices, in the collecting and arrangement of these stories, and yet the message of so many of them is incredibly misogynist. I was very puzzled by that, and that book explores that contradiction.

I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century.