Creativity Quote by Lita Ford

There’s a sly defiance packed into Lita Ford’s plainspoken flex: “I have a lot of female fans.” In the hard rock and metal ecosystem Ford came up in, women were routinely treated as props, dates, or marketing segments, not a core audience with taste and allegiance. So the line works less as a brag than as a quiet rewriting of who gets to belong in the genre - and who gets counted.

The intent is both strategic and personal. Strategically, she’s staking out credibility that can’t be reduced to the old, lazy narrative: the “hot girl with a guitar” who’s supposedly there for male consumption. Female fans imply something sturdier than that. They’re not impressed by novelty alone; they’re clocking technique, attitude, survival. They’re also a rebuttal to the gatekeepers who act like women don’t buy records, don’t show up, don’t know the riffs.

The subtext carries a second edge: solidarity without sentimentality. Ford isn’t giving a speech about empowerment; she’s dropping a fact that changes the frame. In a scene that often polices femininity - too sexy and you’re fake, not sexy and you’re invisible - her audience becomes proof that a woman performer can define herself and still be met, loudly, by other women.

Context matters: coming out of The Runaways and into a solo career built on swagger, Ford’s statement reads like a tally of wins against an industry designed to keep those numbers small.