Andie MacDowell Quotes

It's amazing that we have lead females on television and a couple of them over 40. Thank you very much. And being beautiful and strong and sexy and everything that you hope for.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented.

There seems to be great roles for women, and it's not necessarily - you don't have to be young women. Suddenly, we're realizing that, generally, women are interesting, and they can also be weird and crazy and mean.

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.

What I think is wonderful is that women are not just avengers or victims in films. They are people. They are characters. It's so refreshing. They're playing different kinds of characters, and they aren't being typecast.

I didn't think I was a humorless shrew in 'Knocked Up.' I think the women are just as funny as the men are in that movie.

When you get into your 40s, the roles do tend to drop off, and I've seen it happening to friends of mine. Hopefully it is improving, and there are female TV executives now who are championing women of all ages in leading roles. But I'm not counting on it.

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens.

There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.

If you look at NBC, two of their most successful shows - '30 Rock' and 'Parks And Rec' - are written by women, produced by women, and I think that's the future. Women are the new men.

There are not many roles where women are really active.

I'm just waiting for the moment where it's accepted that women are just as sexual as men without women having to be overtly sexy just to prove how 'liberated' they are.

Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.

We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.