Shirley Manson Quotes

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.

My only concern is that the L.A. Times opinion pages, unfortunately like too many in this country, are dominated by men, and I'd like to see that change.

If women ran Hollywood, 'The Hollywood Reporter' would have a 'Men in Entertainment' issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.

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

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.

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.

I think that still, for the most part, even in 2010, the vast majority of museum shows and gallery shows and gallerists are pretty much dominated by men. So having a sense of what women are up to, for me, frankly, is very, very important.

I think women, we are very interesting. We have a lot to say, and sometimes it's frustrating how all the lead parts are for men.

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.

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.

The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.

There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.

My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.

Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.

To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

I've always been slightly hesitant about generalizing movies made by men and women being different in their nature; I think movies by each director are different. Having said that, I think that it's kind of disgraceful that there aren't more female directors.

The Screen Actors Guild numbers are frightening: Something like 90 percent of the roles are for men, 5 percent are for livestock and 5 percent are for women.

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.

When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.

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

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

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.

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into 'women's books' except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.

Women don't get the same opportunities that men get in racing, so they don't get to learn race craft.

If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women.