Quotes About Women

The idea of equality is still how I define feminism. I think it's a broad definition that encompasses the variety of experiences women and men have with the word and the movement.

I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.

I have respected women from the beginning of my life.

I feel I've learned a lot about [experience of giving birth], and I think it's amazing. Men and women who are ob-gyns are pretty amazing.

One thing that I would like to do that I've seen them not do that well is take women all through the process of the postpartum period in a more meaningful way. That would be my agenda.

[The Women's Room] is one of those pieces of fiction that reveals itself in a different way every time. It's incredible.

I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.

I am entirely confident that the extraordinary women we have running for us right across Canada will make excellent cabinet ministers.

Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.

I do not want these women-centric films, or... what's that term? ...mahila-pradhan films as everyone calls them.

I most certainly think we are influencing the way women think about themselves.

Many entire nations are marginalised by the more powerful nations. That is causing imbalance, violence and terror. Women must do their best to introduce another perspective.

So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries.

During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame?

Girls do what their mothers tell them. Ladies do what society tells them. Women make up their own minds.

As women, you have to negotiate your way through a man's world.

I think Shonda Rhimes came to change television for women forever.

For women especially, its important to be financially independent.

Something that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men and women and how we relate to one another.

There's just so much lazy violence directed at women. But beyond that, lazy violence directed at humans generally. Just lazy violence.

I am honored and lucky to be one of the first films funded by Gamechanger Films, a consortium of investors who finance movies directed by women.

I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.

I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much--so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.