Megan Abbott Quotes

Women are the harshest critics of other women.

Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life.

I'll never forget when I was running, when I was knocking on doors for my first office as I served as a Cleveland city councilwoman and to have older men say to me, 'Can you do this and be a wife and a mother?' Excuse me? Women make the world go round. We multitask... But to have that kind of condescending question asked of me in modern times.

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.

Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women.

A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

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

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.

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

Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.

If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and publicly disdained.

I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.

The thing I will say is that probably culturally, women are treated differently, which means, I think, you're criticized more, you have to listen a little bit more, you have to justify yourself.

I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

In Hollywood, women hate each other.

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

Maybe studios don't want to see women acting in a way that isn't womanly. Maybe people don't.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.