Nita Strauss Quotes

Music is a male-dominated field.

The Manchester music scene was very male dominated.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

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

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

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.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

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

I feel like in our society there is definitely still a lot of underlying sexism. It's funny how many guys are surprised when you pick up an instrument in the studio, or write your own songs.

I was used to being the only woman in everything... I didn't even think about it. Men were my role models - there's nothing wrong with that.

I wasn't taken seriously being the only girl playing in band growing up.

Ten minutes? That's the women. It's not for the men; not for the real game, mate.

'Princess' is a good word, as is 'girlish', 'pixie-like' and all these other things. I personally find it a bit boring, it's all been done before. The amount of times you read reviews of bands and it's an all-girl four-piece, and they talk about what the women are wearing... you'll never read a review that's like: "Male singer Thom Yorke, who was dressed in a white t-shirt and jeans..." You would never read that about a man.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

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.

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

I know, for me, that I have always been very conscious of how I dress when I go to the studio, I'm very conscious of my body language when I'm working - a lot of times, I'm the only female in the room. It's a very male-dominated profession. I'm always around guys. Guys are going to try you all day, and they're going to flirt all day.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it.