11 Quotes by Mallory O'Meara

Ultimately, the important thing to companies isn't ethics. It's money and power. For decades, they've been happily complicit in this bullshit system as long as money was being made. Men like Harvey Weinstein aren't losing their careers because movie studios are growing spines and hearts. They're losing careers because of the Everest-esque mountain of damning evidence stacked against them and that the public outcry might make those studios lose money.

One hundred percent of the top American films of 1954, the year Creature from the Black Lagoon was released, were directed by men. Ninety-six percent of the top American films for 2016, the year I started writing this book, were directed by men. In sixty-two years, we have improved gender equality in American film directing by four percent. At this rate, we'll be colonizing Mars before we see an qual number of female directors.

To the privileged, equality feels like oppression

Having a new tattoo really sucks,

Women are the most important part of horror because, by and large, women are the ones the horror happens to.

Women are the most important part of horror because, by and large, women are the ones the horror happens to. Women have to endure it, fight it, survive it – in the movies and in real life. They are at risk of attack from real-life monsters. In America, a woman is assaulted every nine seconds.

To the privileged, equality feels like oppression.

Even when everyone is being respectful and polite, if you are the only woman in the room it’s impossible not to be acutely, uncomfortably aware of it. This feeling only intensifies if you are a marginalized woman.

At what point are women forgiven for not being supernaturally resilient Amazons who spend all their waking hours fighting injustice?