Ottessa Moshfegh Quotes

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

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

As women, we need to stand together. We are judged and objectified often enough by men.

To be outspoken, or different at all, is a problem for women.

Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

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

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.

I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.

It is rather ironic that society denies women certain rights under the pretext that they are emotional beings, and may become irrational when under pressure, while resorting to the emotions argument as an excuse for men's behaviour in honour crimes.

Man's constant need to disparage woman, to humble her, to deny her equal rights, and to belittle her achievements — all are expressions of his innate envy and fear.

As soon as woman raises her voice or uses her pen in defense- however cool and earnest- of her own side of the question, there is an immediate outcry made in order to drown her. It is so easy for men to talk of ‘the clamor of shrill voices,’ ‘the cackle of female tongues,’ that in the pleasure of so describing them they occasionally forget that they have not answered their opponents’ argument…

Everyone has been discriminated against or harassed - sexism is real.

Of course there's systemic misogyny in certain parts of our culture and systemic racism and a wider range of insults women have to face.

I feel like, as a female, I am maybe hyper-sensitive to feeling pushed into a corner or somebody taking a song a different way.

This is what the media does with women. You try to divide and conquer women so you can intimidate and victimise them. This is why they don't make movies where a lot of women get to be on set together. It's about dividing.

Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.

When women do take on traditionally male subjects, certain male colleagues can seem affronted that a woman has dared to trespass on their subject. I could given you dozens of examples, but here's one: Max Hastings's review in the 'Sunday Times' in 2009 of Miranda Carter's book 'The Three Emperors'.

I think it is childish for men to joke about women's clothes, to make fun of our hats, to complain over the cost of a good fur coat.

I feel, in our culture, the girl with any sort of power is called 'difficult' or various words that are demeaning just because she has a voice, has confidence, and stands for her rights. It is sad, but it is the truth of our country.