Susan Elizabeth Phillips Quotes

Film is not a woman's medium. If you weren't the hottest kid in town, men stayed away from you.

It sucks. When you're a woman in sports, people want you to show some skin.

I have always stayed away from works that objectify women or is misogynistic or politically incorrect.

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

Because so many rooms are run by men they're just used to women being the "that" - to be adored and dreamed about.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.

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

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

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

I'm all about empowering women. And by lining them up against the wall and weighing them, surely you are making them feel more like meat than ever - even if it's little meat, if you know what I mean.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

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

I'm just waiting for the moment where it's accepted that women are just as sexual as men without women having to be overtly sexy just to prove how 'liberated' they are.

There's something advantageous about being a woman in rock versus, say, a woman in chemistry or construction. There's definitely a built-in sexism across the board, but I think you're afforded a degree of freedom in rock because, historically, the rules have been flexible.