What Alanis Morissette has said about Misogyny in the music industry
7 quotes · 1 episode · Sep 9, 2026
Alanis Morissette, Canadian-American singer-songwriter known for the 1995 album Jagged Little Pill, has been quoted on Misogyny in the music industry 7 times in 1 episode of Call Her Daddy, most recently on September 9, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Morissette says no group of older women mentors appeared to support her in the mid-1990s.
“Like, will there be some mentor, some group of women who kind of rush in and scoop me up? And the answer was a hard no”
Call Her Daddy: Alanis Morissette: Anger, Attachment, & Postpartum (Sep 9, 2026) · Listen from 3:18
Morissette says she formed a record company with a friend at age 11 because labels of that era would not sign children.
“And so I basically started a record company with my friend Lindsay and we put it out on the record company at, I was 11”
Call Her Daddy: Alanis Morissette: Anger, Attachment, & Postpartum (Sep 9, 2026) · Listen from 7:42
Morissette credits her parents with instilling confidence by telling her she could do anything.
“My parents knocked the confidence one out of the park. Definitely saying you can do anything you want”
Call Her Daddy: Alanis Morissette: Anger, Attachment, & Postpartum (Sep 9, 2026) · Listen from 8:03
Morissette recalls being overwhelmed by rooms of a dozen men in suits and not understanding the contracts she signed at fourteen.
“Just a room full of, you know, 12 men in suits. And I just remember being really overwhelmed. Like, I didn't even know what the word publishing meant”
Call Her Daddy: Alanis Morissette: Anger, Attachment, & Postpartum (Sep 9, 2026) · Listen from 9:17
Morissette characterizes the executives she dealt with as lacking empathy and hating the feminine, not only women.
“there was no attunement or empathy, a lot of personality disorders, a lot of misogyny, a lot of just hate of the feminine, not just women”
Call Her Daddy: Alanis Morissette: Anger, Attachment, & Postpartum (Sep 9, 2026) · Listen from 13:49
Morissette says radio stations of the era declined her songs on the grounds that they were already playing another woman artist.
“if we called a radio station to see if they would play one of my songs, they would say, we can't play it. We're playing Sinead”
Call Her Daddy: Alanis Morissette: Anger, Attachment, & Postpartum (Sep 9, 2026) · Listen from 14:55
Morissette says she repeatedly pressed her new business managers for financial information because her intuition told her something was wrong.
“into the new business manager's office over and over and saying, I need more information because something's up and I don't know what”
Call Her Daddy: Alanis Morissette: Anger, Attachment, & Postpartum (Sep 9, 2026) · Listen from 19:15
Episodes
Alanis Morissette: Anger, Attachment, & PostpartumCall Her Daddy · Sep 9, 2026 · 1 h 5 min
Alanis Morissette tells Alex Cooper about her 1990s breakthrough, industry misogyny, attachment wounds, postpartum depression and the freedom of menopause.