Etta James Quotes

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

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

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

It's frustrating to see that people still get shocked when they see a woman doing action.

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

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

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

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.

In this industry, all the heads of labels are men, but every artist has to prove themselves, regardless of their sex. I have always been very vocal about the women sticking together.

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Men are born privileged in the scale of things - I'm generalizing, but it's true. Women have to define themselves in the eyes of men. They have to fight for their rights, especially in a society that will pretend that there is no fight or no battle, that it's a cliche, that feminists are reactionary, all these things.

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.

Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.

Misogyny should be understood as the ‘law enforcement’ branch of a patriarchal order, which has the overall function of policing and enforcing its governing ideology. Sexism wears a lab coat, misogyny goes on witch hunts.... Sexism is bookish; misogyny is combative. Sexism has a theory; misogyny wields a cudgel.

As women and men, we're not primed and taught to feel that women are as inspirational as men.

I feel like in our society there is definitely still a lot of underlying sexism. It's funny how many guys are surprised when you pick up an instrument in the studio, or write your own songs.

Women face so much at various levels - it can be as simple as the common belief that a woman is incapable of doing certain things or the fact that even if you do something wrong to her, she won't speak up for fear of embarrassment... The time is here that we all should fight against such wrongs.