“I had fewer female clients. I don't know why. It was always the men who chose me. And the ones whose secrets I had to hold. I represented Sophia Loren. She was jailed in Caserta for 17 days.” KnowsMenSecretHe ManFemaleFewerClientsSophia Author:Giovanna Cau
“Hmm, can I be obvious and say there is probably a double standard for male vs. female directors? Sadly, I think that's actually the case. And it probably stems from the fact that there are proportionately so many fewer women directors than men ones that each project is perhaps more closely scrutinized for its content.” ThinkingMenFactsCasesDirectorsProjectsStandardsFemaleMalesObviousFewerStemDouble StandardHmm Author:Lynn Shelton
“Maybe it's the culture, maybe it's the cliché of Latino machismo, but the Mediterranean male character is more dull than the female character. Women are more surprising and they have fewer prejudices.” CharacterCultureFemalePrejudiceMalesDullFewerSurprisingLatinoFemale CharactersMachismo Author:Pedro Almodovar
“I think that until a filmmaker knows that about him- or herself, the films they make will just be copies of other people's work. It's important for anyone who wants to make films for a living, but I think perhaps it has an even greater weight for female filmmakers since they represent a much smaller percentage of the population. Their voices are fewer so they must be even stronger.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantImportantFilmVoiceGreaterFemaleWeightStrongerPopulationFilmmakerWorking ItCopiesFewerPercentages Author:Megan Griffiths
“Most of the female-directed films, if they got distribution, would have fewer dollars to support the film and play in fewer theaters than the men. Because the female-directed films go to smaller companies. So the gap starts widening.” IfsMenPlayFilmCompanySupportHe ManFemaleTheaterDollarsGapsFewerDistribution Author:Catherine Hardwicke
“Genes which allow females to be less inhibited leave fewer copies of themselves than genes which persuade them to remain highly selective. Among males, the best strategy is exactly the opposite one. The maximum advantage goes to those males with the fewest inhibitions. "Love 'em and leave 'em" is not so much a nasty peice of male chauvinist piggery as an accurate reflection of biological reality.” RealityReflectionAdvantageFemaleOppositesStrategyMalesEmsCopiesFewerGenesAccurateNastyMaximumSelectiveInhibitionsMale Chauvinist Author:Lyall Watson
“Statistically in the UK, there are so many fewer female composers than male songwriters and they're marketed in a way that - females are marketed in a way that they're these independent unique artists writing their own stuff, and they're not, because fourteen percent of PRS goes to women.” WayWritingArtistStuffUniquePercentFemaleIndependentMalesComposerFewerSongwritersFourteen Author:Kate Nash
“As long as 85,000 women are raped every year and 400,000 sexually assaulted in England and Wales alone, it's hard to argue that there isn't a problem. Not to mention the fact that fewer than 1/3 of our MPs are female, that women write only 1/5 front page newspaper articles, that they're less than 1/10 of engineers and that 54,000 a year lose their jobs as a result of maternity discrimination... to name but a tiny sample of issues. It's not 'going too far' to demand equality, and we're certainly not there yet.” WritingYearsLongHardFactsProblemJobsNamesLosesResultsIssuesFrontsDemandPagesFemaleEnglandArguingTinyNewspapersDiscriminationArticlesFewerEngineersSexuallySampleWalesMaternityMps Author:Laura Bates
“The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.” TryingWellsMightActingFieldsSingingFemaleLogicDancingComedianFewerCompetitorsSinging And DancingFemale Comedian Author:Rita Rudner
“Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker than that of males; that the pig is the only animal liable to measles; that an elephant suffering from insomnia should have its shoulders rubbed with salt, olive-oil, and warm water; that women have fewer teeth than men, and so on. Nevertheless, he is considered by the great majority of philosophers a paragon of wisdom.” PeopleIfsMenShouldChildrenWisdomYoungScienceSufferingWaterAnimalBloodWindFemaleShould HaveMajorityMalesWinterPhilosopherWarmOilShouldersTeethReputationSpiteFewerSaltPigsNeverthelessAbsurdityElephantsInsomniaLiableOlivesOlive OilMeaslesParagon Book:An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity Source: An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity