Brit Marling Quotes

You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

There's a lot of head-shaking and forehead-slapping when you start to realize just how deep-seated misogyny can be, how systemic and entrenched certain modes of thinking are that are still very much alive.

There are not many roles where women are really active.

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.

So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

I don't think the very fact that I'm a woman makes me suddenly more vulnerable or more inherently used and abused.

The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

I used to be very interested in the history of women's rights in this country and in other countries. I tried to learn as much as I could about it, and more than anything, I would be called gay. It was phenomenal. But if a boy has something to say, he is appreciated; he's even popular. If a girl says something, it's instantly a threat.

I don't know why women aren't allowed to have the same sort of breadth and scope and flaws of men.

The fact is, there is not now, nor has there ever been in the whole of history, a single country in the world where women have equality with men.

Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood, needs to be defensively claimed, because it's either devalued or sentimentally idealized, but not supported. I so thoroughly believe that female human beings have worth that I don't feel the need to argue it, but I think that there's a part of me that very specifically wants to make space for those ideas to be centralized, if only for the moment.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

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.

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

Men are rarely questioned on their spouses or their partners, and nor should they be. And the question to ask is why is this done to women?

Men have not stacked the decks against women.