Brit Marling Quotes

For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.

It happens a lot that women have to play the girlfriend role, which isn't as three-dimensional as the male role.

When women say no, they are immediately seen as selfish and not team players.

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

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you're not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you're not strong, they're like, 'Oh, no, no, no.'

I never say 'nagging.' I think that 'nagging' is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created.

While it would be as wrong of me to attribute these traits to women at the exclusion of men as it would be for a man to do the reverse, I think women can often be very strong team players and good communicators and collaborators.

I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

I hate to say there are female and male ways of dealing with power, because I think each of us has a male and a female part. But based on my own experience, women will tend to be inclusive, to reach out more, to care a little more.

Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

I don't remember a single day during the time I was minister of gender, foreign minister, vice-president and president when I saw anything on the part of the men that indicated they were undermining me.

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

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

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.

I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.

The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.