Sara Pascoe Quotes

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

After Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, we were told, 'She's the first female speaker of the House, so whether we like it or not, we've got to handle this with kid gloves. Don't go after Speaker Pelosi. You can go after other people, but you'll be branded as mean and evil if you go after the first female Speaker of the House.'

Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.

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

Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.

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

Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

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

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.

It still annoys me when I read really derogatory things about how a woman looks because you would usually not read these things about a man, and that still has the potential to put women off public life.

There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.

You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It's like reverse sexism.

I was absolutely astonished by an onslaught of comments expressing their absolute shock that IFLS is run by a woman.

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

So many times, you get sent scripts where it's, like, the token chick, where the woman is just there to serve the man in the film.

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.

I have no time for it at all, when women just don't like women. I don't get it.

It's not misogynistic to criticize a legendary female pop singer; it's misogynistic to think a legendary female pop singer can't handle it.

When you see the way some people write women, especially in studio movies, it's like, 'Sorry! Sorry for being alive!' Women are so apologetic.

You can't say that we need to give women more roles, and then when we do, say that they're only there because men want to look at them.

I think comics has this rap of being misogynistic, and that's certainly not untrue.

I think if there's anything 2016 has taught me, it's that we have a real hard time with women in our society; we have a hard time with the feminine.

I have met fantastic men in my life and horrible women. I have also met some amazing women and terrible men. I have seen women who are sexists.

It's so irritating, because male rappers don't have to have a look. A guy can look like a bum on the street, but as a male, people will accept him because he's a rapper. But females, they expect you to have a big booty. They expect you to walk in six-inch heels.