Ann Nocenti Quotes

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

I sometimes get asked: 'How come the men in your stories don't have such strong characters?' And I'm like: 'I don't care.' I just want to find out about all the different lives a woman can live. But my feminism has never been against men. It's not erasure; it's just they're not the focus. In real life, they're quite nice.

I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.

Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.

I think women are excellent social critics.

Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging - not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That's something new for Russia.

It's important to make women feel confident, because I think they are more important than men.

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.

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.

In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.

One of the things that's important for anybody adapting source material that is primarily a male buddy picture is to find ways to latch on to strong female characters in the piece and bring them to the forefront and celebrate their point of view alongside the men; otherwise, it becomes a sausage party, and it's a singular point of view.

Men are shameless in selling their story. Women are often reserved. So we do need to encourage women to know their story and then tell it strategically as to how they can add value.

Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

It seems a lot of straight men need a word coach or a lawyer when it comes to discussing 'Sex and the City.'

So many women are financially dependent on men. So why can't men be dependent on women? I'm totally okay with it.

'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.

How do I think the industry's changed? Films have changed a lot. I think women are finally able to get older and be sexy just like men. So I'm really enjoying that part - that's my evolution.

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

If you read a lot of Chinese literature, there has always been very strong women figures - warriors, swordswomen - who defended honor and loyalty with the men. So, it's not new to our culture - it's always been very much a part of it. It's good that now the Western audience would have a different image of the Chinese women.

Women should be sure of themselves because women have a lot of capacities. We can achieve so many different things that men cannot. I think women are stronger.

I think that women on expeditions often get sucked into giving 150 percent of themselves because they feel they have to prove themselves physically equal to men. We get ourselves into trouble and burn out.