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Quotes About Media

When you're an older woman [in a movie] you tend to be in - how did you put it? You're the brunt of the joke.
~ Jane Fonda
Jesse Jackson was involved in a three-car crash this weekend. I understand that no one was hurt, but I understand that two of the women in the other cars are now pregnant.
~ Jay Leno
The press seems to love pitting women against each other.
~ Jeanne Tripplehorn
Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.
~ Jessica Savitch
The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isnt true.
~ Jill Abramson
Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.
~ Jo Brand
There are some young women movie stars who are doing it everywhere, smoking in every movie, sometimes even with placements with a pack of cigarettes.
~ Joe Eszterhas
I most certainly think we are influencing the way women think about themselves.
~ Kam Williams
I think this whole Billy Bush thing just pushed women over the edge because it's so visceral.
~ Kathleen Hanna
I want to see women onscreen the way I see them in society.
~ Kathy Bates
The New York Times endorsed Hillary Clinton for President, they turned around and talked about the way Hillary Clinton and cohorts always went after these women [of Bill Clinton].
~ Kellyanne Conway
There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'
~ Lena Dunham
Women's bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people's attention, and advertisers aren't going to stop using something that works.
~ Liz Phair
In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role.
~ Liz W. Garcia
You want to see women your own age in films.
~ Lynda Carter
I feel very lucky to have served under some great bosses. The majority of them were men, but I have also had a few women. In many ways, I feel like media is pretty neutral when it comes to gender.
~ Megan Alexander
When the bombers are women - and children, which I predict we'll see more of - the terrorists get more bang for their buck, because there's more media attention.
~ Mia Bloom
Acts perpetrated by women, particularly attractive women, get far more media attention.
~ Mia Bloom
The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
I don't have a clue why I'm famous, either. But I didn't make myself famous. I'm not doing it; you are doing it.
~ Nicole Richie
I think the media's a little frightened of women.
~ Nikki Haley
Why is a movie starring women considered a gimmick and a movie starring men is just a normal movie?
~ Paul Feig
When guys see a movie starring women, they go, "That must be filled with these characters I see in these movies who are such a drag." And that's just bad for everybody.
~ Paul Feig
Men have better self-images than women. You know what I've never seen in a men's magazine? A makeover.
~ Rita Rudner