Karyn Kusama Quotes

It's exhausting being a woman.

As a woman, this is one of these areas where you have to walk a fine line: the classic, 'Are you soft and squishy, and you hug everybody, and you're a cheerleader?' versus, 'Are you the hard-nosed you-know-what female dog?'

I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.

If you don't have a child, you're not a real woman. I know the ERA people will kill me for saying that.

I was certainly never conscious of 'playing the woman.' I would not have approved of that. It is not a winning tactic. I operated in the world as I found it, and it was a man's world.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

What does it mean, being a woman?

I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism' because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood.

If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.

As a man, you will never know how a woman feels.

I've never considered myself a feminist, but I'm happy that I've been raised as a strong, independent woman.

I've been a feminist all my life, or at least as long as I've been conscious of being a woman.

I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that's going to shut down the world.

I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

If this is a man's world, who cares? I'm still really glad to be a girl in it.

Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist.

It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.

I still consider myself a feminist.

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.