Kathleen Kennedy Quotes

There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue.

There seem to be more women producers than men.

Women remain dramatically under-represented as characters in film when compared to their representation in the U.S. population.

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.

I remember the mid-'50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the U.K.

The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

There's a lot of good roles for men, always, and for very young girls. But for women, not so many.

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.

Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men; I never really liked reading books about the history of science, and I never really understood why.

When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.

I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

What I had noticed is that there weren't a lot of women lining up to see a comic book movie, but they were going to line up to see 'The Devil Wears Prada,' which may have been something I wanted to address.

Lack of female judges does not render the entire judicial process suspect…. Does every woman seeking divorce need to appear before a female judge in order to feel fairly treated? That's ridiculous.

Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.

I just think overall there's not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

I remember, the first time it struck me is I was an econ major at Stanford as an undergrad, and it struck me how few women were econ majors back in the '70s. And then in business school how few women... And even then, I thought, 'Gosh, this is really unfortunate.'

When only one or two percent of filmmakers are female, you can't help but have some kind of bias.

For every movie that you go see, how many leading male roles are there in any given movie, and how many leading female roles are there? There may be 5 or 6 really good roles for guys and maybe one for a woman. And it doesn't even matter if you're 25. That's just the logistics.

After graduating, I was shooting as well as working as a key grip, and I often found myself the only female out of the whole crew, except for producers and the occasional AC.

For me, I was always the only woman in my cohort, first as a mechanical engineering undergraduate student, then as a chemical engineering graduate student. There were very few women getting degrees in those fields at the time. My role models were men - great men role models.