Charli XCX Quotes

And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

It's very tough to give advice because it's tough out there for everybody but for a girl it's even tougher, because I don't think the glass ceiling has changed at all in the past 30 years. Otherwise the radio would be covered with girl bands, or girls in bands, so I don't think much has changed on that level. But I think that bands can still have a lot of success trying to go another route.

When those of our army whose voices are likely to coo tell us that the day of sex antagonism is over and that henceforth we only have to advance hand in hand with the male, I do not believe it.

People feel removed from sexism. 'I'm not a sexist, but I'm not a feminist.' They think there's this fuzzy middle ground. There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.

Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood, needs to be defensively claimed, because it's either devalued or sentimentally idealized, but not supported. I so thoroughly believe that female human beings have worth that I don't feel the need to argue it, but I think that there's a part of me that very specifically wants to make space for those ideas to be centralized, if only for the moment.

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

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, you are so afraid of people thinking you are weak.

They said I was a married mother of two but the record sounded like an indie album and they didn't know how to market it! This country is incredibly sexist, as is the music and media industry.

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

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.

One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

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

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

I've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.

In this industry, all the heads of labels are men, but every artist has to prove themselves, regardless of their sex. I have always been very vocal about the women sticking together.

Nobody asks me about what male musicians I think about; I only ever get asked about females.

As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.

It didn't matter how good I was. It was always, 'You're a girl. You can't play with the guys.' It's always been motivation for me.

There are so many times that, as a woman in the music industry, you're asked questions no male musician would ever be asked.