Madeleine M. Kunin Quotes

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

I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

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

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.

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.

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

Any reasonable person can look at video games and see that we don't represent women well.

Even in stories that I like, with a female character that I love deeply, it always feels like there's something that she has to prove to the male characters before she can even get started.

There are very few games, especially on the scale of 'Horizon,' that have a sole protagonist that is female.

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

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, you are so afraid of people thinking you are weak.

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

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?

An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time.

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

Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.

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

We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.

Sometimes I try to sell shows with a female lead to networks, and that isn't something that's been a proven formula for them, so they reject it. I do feel like men get the funniest roles in movies.

There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.

There's a lot of good roles for men, always, and for very young girls. But for women, not so many.

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

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.