Latest Anita Sarkeesian Quotes from Interviews

• I'm really thriving and enjoying being a part of a really vibrant creative team and doing creative work.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Team, Creative, Enjoy

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• It's been really exciting to work on a collaborative, creative team where we got to bounce ideas back and forth and figure out the best one.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Team, Ideas, Creative

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• When we look at these historical women and what they've gone through, it's shocking to recognize some of our own experiences in theirs. When you look at someone like Ada Lovelace who is the first computer programmer, during her lifetime doctors said that was really sick because she was trying to use a masculine kind of brain that she didn't have. Today, her legacy of being the first programmer is stil disputed.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Doctors, Sick, Historical

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• Maybe today we aren't being told that our brains are not capable of such things [like programming], but we [as a women] are being told that we are not good enough or smart enough or that our successes do not belong to us.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Smart, Not Good Enough, Brain

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• The struggles of dealing with online harassment is the same harassment that women have been dealing with, it's just a new medium in which it's happening.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Struggle, Online, Harassment

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• The other thing is that it's really hard to separate out the harassment from everything we do. When we started creating Tropes, we were hyper-aware of the intense scrutiny, the intense harassment, and the intense pressure to do something meaningful given the attention both positive and negative. That's carried over in terms of making sure that I produce the best work that I can, that's the most accurate, the most sensitive and engaged.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Meaningful, Creating, Attention

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• The struggles women face today are simultaneously very, very old and very new.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Struggle, Faces, Today

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• I got to focus on my performance - learning how to perform is something I've been working on both personally and professionally.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Focus, Performances

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• For me, if folks who are watching YouTube can pitch in a bit to help cover the cost for creating this work, that's great, but I don't want folks who can't helped to not have access to it. I really like the crowdfunding model in that regard.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Creating, Cost, Want

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• Ordinary Women was shot on a soundstage with a professional crew and a professional animation studio creating everything.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Creating, Ordinary, Shots

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• I find crowdfunding to be one of the most ethical ways to continue doing the work that we do because the idea is that I want my videos to be free and available to everybody, and that's why I use YouTube and online platforms.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Ideas, Use, Want

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• I really want to help write women back into history.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Writing, Want, Helping

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• I want these to be names that young girls and boys and kids of all genders grow up knowing. It shouldn't just be when you take a feminist class in college, if you happen to do that. I hope this is fun and engaging for folks to watch.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Girl, Growing Up, Fun

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• Here are examples of real women who have done real things: good, bad, and in between. We're expanding not just the definition of the female or feminine hero, but also villains and more complex, nuanced female characters. Too often I hear men say, "I don't know how to write women." Here you go, here are five incredible women you can use to inspire your own stories.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Real, Hero, Writing

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• I hadn't mentioned, but Ching Shih is a pretty villainous character. She is a real person, but she was a pirate commander, so she probably murdered a lot of people.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Real, Character, People

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• I really wanted to explore a range of women who aren't necessarily perfect, heroic women. I wanted to series to influence creative people to include more women in their work, especially historic works.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Perfect, People, Creative

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• My writer and I sat down and wrote a huge list of names of women to consider. It was really important to us to have a broad range of women from across generations and cultures. We didn't want to make it Western-focused, we wanted to make sure it was international and that it had an intersectional lens.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Names, Important, Generations

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• I came back to this idea of telling the stories of women who aren't in all of the history books. Their names are not up there next to male names that we've know since we were little kids. Ching Shih, for example, was a pirate commander from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. She was one of the most fearsome pirates, why is her name not included when we list the names of great pirates like Blackbeard?

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Book, Kids, Names

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

• I wouldn't call it a silver lining, but with more women speaking up, online harassment is beginning to be taken more seriously.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Taken, Speaking Up, Silver

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• The gaming industry has been male-dominated ever since its inception.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Males, Inception, Has Beens

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• I wanted to make feminism more accessible. And I really wanted to engage with my own generation, one that is increasingly speaking in an audio/video multimedia language.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Feminism, Generations, Video

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• Some male gamers with a deep sense of entitlement are terrified of change.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Males, Gamer, Entitlement

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• I'm no stranger to a bit of sexist backlash, but I was surprised by the level of vicious and misogynist hate I received.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Hate, Levels, Stranger

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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