Jean Giraudoux Quotes

I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.

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

You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.

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

I talk about feminism being a spectrum.

I've never played on my gender.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.

People aren't comfortable thinking of women as people. Like we're not people, we're women, and that means something completely different, especially when you have power.

I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.

I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a feminist, that can come off as a negative connotation. But I am a strong female.

I consider myself a feminist, in a way.

It seems to me that the fact that I am a woman is a bigger issue than the fact that I'm from the East. For me it isn't really important. I've only ever known myself as a woman.

I think the way we look upon gender is that we're realizing that we're not that different, which is a good thing. The United States needs to come further with that. In the Scandinavian countries, we've come further when it comes to gender politics and how we look upon gender and how women are treated in general.

How can one be a woman and not be a feminist? That's my question.

I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.

We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth.

I don't think women are that vastly different from men. I'm a bit of a woman myself. But I'm not a feminist filmmaker. I'm not making a feminist thesis to prove that women are important. I just happen to make films with strong characters that are women.

I am proud to be a woman.

Within my immediate creative community, I would say gender is something that I've always been interested in and always talked about.

What I want is a world where neither gender nor sex are destiny. Where no child is ever told there's anything they can't do, or must do, 'because you're a boy' or 'because you're a girl.' It's not a world where anything is 'taken' from anyone - it's one where everyone's possibilities are enlarged.

I'm of the opinion that gender is a social construct.

I want to be respected as a woman, as a mother, as a wife. That's why I transition.

I respect women but do not necessarily believe that women need to compete with men.

I never identified as a woman too much, because women aren't too different from men. But with all the #MeToo and Time's Up stuff, I thought about it differently.