Susanna Kearsley Quotes

I’m the only woman in the country who gets a regular pay check doing political cartoons. And there are no Blacks. I don’t know why …. Perhaps, women are used to taking care of pathetic things; cartoonists beat up on pathetic things.

Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.

It's a struggle every day to get people to invest financially in portrayals of women that aren't satisfying to straight white men.

Women did not have as many options as men, and I need to reflect that reality in my mysteries.

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

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.

Women are completely disadvantaged - despite what men will say. It is not a fair fight.

If you are a woman, you might feel torn between logical agreement and emotional resistance. Why? It seems like a simpler solution to blame men for the pay gap than to engineer your own bridge to higher pay.

Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

I've been writing American history for a long time, and I've had a hard time finding strong, interesting female characters. There are women, of course, in American history, but they're hard to write about because they don't leave much of a historical trace, and they're not usually involved in high-profile public events.

The one thing that never changes in America is that the white straight male is born with a promise. Women are not promised very much, and we embody our disappointment from the beginning.

We tend to kind of write women out of history.

I know how difficult it is to be not just a woman, but a black woman, and I know how much we get attacked and our voices aren't heard. I experience it every single day.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

Look at history; all the interesting women were deeply flawed.

I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music.

Bad women's comedies are made by men who didn't consult enough women.

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

Studies show that women are more likely than men to die in natural disasters. Women's voices must be heard.