Demi Lovato Quotes

To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty. You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.

Are we asking terribly much of people to be curious and interested in the female experience from the female perspective?

There's just something so special about 'God Made Girls.' It comes from a girl's perspective, and there's nothing like that on radio right now, and so I think that's what made us able to pick that song as a single.

I'm just really inspired by women and, for me, it's really important to work with someone who can relate to the female experience, especially in music.

I'm a woman, and I'm interested in writing stories from a female perspective.

The difficulty of writing about sex, for women, is that sex is best when not thought about, not analysed.

I am interested in writing how women really feel, how they really think, and how they respond to men. I don't want men reading my books because they might find out too much.

What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

Women's music is underrepresented.

My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.

I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent - just like there's a side of me that's vulgar and violent.

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

I've talked about sex a great deal in my music for a great while now. I feel very comfortable with it.

Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because of the conventional conception of womanly purity, has been intimidated from conceding to men a deep insight into her erotic life experiences.

You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.

I actually have a peculiar feminism that does not involve the idea that women shouldn't be sexy. Female characters written in comics have always been pretty damned sexy, and used their sexuality. And I don't have any problem with that.

You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.

Some of my favorite auditions have been with female directors.

I don't really find it to be a man-dominated industry. I mean, I guess when you look at it, it is, but I don't really look at it as a female or male thing, or female or male guitar players or whatever.

I want to make sure in every song we write that women are given power.