Adina Porter Quotes

Women are against women, and men are against women. Like, women have to rise above so much to get ahead. I feel guilty that sometimes I hate being a woman. I hate it because there's so much weight on your shoulders at all times. Maybe I'm just really sensitive.

I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

To me, it's disheartening when you have someone take away everything you've done as a woman because of a man.

I feel, in our culture, the girl with any sort of power is called 'difficult' or various words that are demeaning just because she has a voice, has confidence, and stands for her rights. It is sad, but it is the truth of our country.

When a woman is anything but pleasant, she is labeled as whiny, hysterical, etc.

If women speak their mind, then they are termed as trouble makers or attention seekers.

As women, we need to stand together. We are judged and objectified often enough by men.

Certainly anyone who complains of sexism is marked down as humourless.

I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.

To be outspoken, or different at all, is a problem for women.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their time on film.

The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.

Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

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

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.