Elisabeth Shue Quotes

And I think a woman should find it a joy to be female because God made both male and female.

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

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.

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

I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.

If there's a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it's always seen as meant to pull in the male gaze.

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune with your femininity, and still be equal.

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

A woman is a woman!

I've never felt like a woman fighting in a male world; I've never felt penalised.

What does it mean, being a woman?

The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.

We try to do too many things that used to be in the men's domain, and we try to do them like men's. I'm a prude - I guess you can tell that - but I think, 'Why would you do that?'

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

I do see the world as being different for girls - especially now, having daughters.

I grew up in a very patriarchal family. And I believe that I like being a woman. I act behaving like a woman.

I think, with my own daughters, rather than preaching a feminine agenda, I just really try to help them understand what it meant to be a woman in the late 20th century and the consciousness of how to be a woman in the 21st century: What is working for you and what is working against you.

We live in a culture that does not encourage women to be epic heroes of their own Big Stories but the mothers and lovers and wives and mistresses and muses and personal assistants, the femme fatales and fantasies and manic pixie dream girls, in someone else's Big Story, and this someone else is usually a dude.

In my country, though it is very patriarchal and male-dominated, the public enjoys women-directed movies.

My parents never told me, 'You're supposed to wear pink,' or 'You're meant to do this because you're a girl.'