Ani DiFranco Quotes

Even in stories that I like, with a female character that I love deeply, it always feels like there's something that she has to prove to the male characters before she can even get started.

Guys pit female rappers against each other because female rappers - if you haven't noticed of late - are a lot more interesting than guys.

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.

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

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.

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

I'm so bored of reading scripts with these wonderfully complex male roles, yet the woman character just sits on the bed waiting for him to come home.

If you are chauvinistic mind, you will not be able to take the fact there is a strong, successful girl.

I am not somebody who goes around saying men are superior or that male writers are superior. In fact, I really go out of my way to champion women's work that I think is not getting enough attention. None of that is ever enough. Because a villain is needed. It's like there's no way to make myself not male.

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

The male domination and chauvinism of the comics form is either being wittily lampooned in 'Watchmen' or handily perpetuated, depending on whom you ask.

We live in a culture that does not encourage women to be epic heroes of their own Big Stories but the mothers and lovers and wives and mistresses and muses and personal assistants, the femme fatales and fantasies and manic pixie dream girls, in someone else's Big Story, and this someone else is usually a dude.

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

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

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

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

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

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.