Quote:
"Making a film—whether you're male or female—and getting it financed is no easy matter. [...] 'Showbusiness is a male-run world, and I had to break into the industry,' [Sylvia Spring] says. Some businessmen she approached pinched her on the cheek and told her she should be in front of the cameras, not behind; others patted her on the head and said, 'isn't that cute.' 'It was hard to tell if the reaction was to my sex or to my youth,' she says. 'Still, I got in a lot of doors simply because I was a female.'"
-- Helen Worthington

Source:
Worthington, Helen. "Sylvia Spring watches struggle for liberation because she's made it." Toronto Star, March 31, 1971.