Sonny Mehta Quotes

Even 'Posham Pa' is written by a woman so it's a perspective which I empathise with more.

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.

You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.

My mother and I used to watch 'Maude,' and I think she loved 'Maude' because my mother wanted to see strong women out there with a voice.

I've always felt very sympathetic from the first days of writing about women that, whatever the woman, whether she is trying to be a woman in the conventional sense or breaking the boundaries, those struggles are quite difficult.

I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.

I'm still very interested in telling one-of-a-kind women's stories.

I'm really interested in women of different generations... I think there is no one female experience.

I certainly don't think of my life as a fairy tale. I think of myself as a modern, contemporary woman who has had to deal with all kinds of problems that many women today have to deal with.

I'm a woman, and I'm interested in writing stories from a female perspective.

I've written about women's lives, and I just want to write about them from being a woman. I don't need feminism on top of that when I'm writing.

I only ever want to be a part of something that feels good to me, because I'm such a feminist and a believer in the power of women and the stories we have to tell.

Any story about a powerful woman owning herself in any way is automatically deemed feminist.

Now I would say I'm absolutely a feminist writer.

I think that 'Gilmore Girls' did so many things well, and it was a very feminist show in a time when that wasn't really being portrayed at all.

I feel like women have so much more to offer: our essence, or flavor, and our part of the story.

I think that women's lives are multilayered.

What women really want is opportunity and the freedom to love and accept all aspects of womanhood - the intellectual, spiritual, professional, biological and relational dimensions of who we are.

We recognize and truly believe that women's stories have the power to transform the world.

Being a woman means everything to me.

I think it's important for people to understand that as a woman, I can only rap about the parts I have.

Being a woman is power. Just because we live in a male-dominated world doesn't mean that you're incapable or less than a man.

If you asked 100 women on the street who they'd like to be, I'm sure most of them would say Kirsty Wark or Germaine Greer. Yawn. Do me a favour - they're lying.

Most people don't know this, but I never wanted Man Repeller to be about me. It was titled that to identify a genre of women.