Joss Whedon Quotes

Men. We love them. We respect them. But we rarely get to objectify them.

As a woman who has some sort of power, you have to have a man that can take that. It's hard to find those men.

We don't think only men can be powerful and strong. Behind the heads of the Mafia, the leaders of culture, there are always very strong women. European culture is a matriarchy, especially in the south. The women have a lot of power.

We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

I'm attracted to strong female roles: females that aren't necessarily defined by their relationships with men.

What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.

In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.

I have always actually been with and attracted to very strong women, and I think I've learned a lot from them.

I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.

It is so inspirational, to see that in the world of Westeros, men are answering to women, and they are a force to be reckoned with. It's empowering, and it's inspirational as well, because you're just like, 'This is great!'

I'm strong. I'm outspoken. I feel like I'm equal to men. I can walk in the woods just as much and as far as a man can. Yet I'm still female. I'm very female.

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

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.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

I like strong women. Physical women.

You'll see that the strong, the affirmative, the positive voice in any of the plays I've written is that of a woman. My men are, well, not quite worthless, but they are certainly weak, and that reflects the reality I grew up with and what I think has in a sense shaped me.

Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.

I don't often think of Donald Trump, but his daughter is very smart. She's a woman working in real estate, which is predominantly men, and she's both savvy and articulate about her business and her business acumen.

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.