Constance Wu Quotes

I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.

My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.

Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.

But it's cool working with female directors because I'm a girl, so you do relate to them more. You can talk to them about other stuff like clothes and all that.

I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.

People aren't so interested in seeing movies about women's problems.

Oprah didn't want to put me on the show for a really long time because she thought I was more for the men than for the women.

I love women. I've always cared about making movies about women my entire career.

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

There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.

We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out.

Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

I'm all for Hillary Clinton. I want her to avoid the barbs of women who hate women who work. But I'm known as a Republican in Washington. I'm probably the last person she'd call.

These are old issues. Female power, misogyny, the treatment of women, how you make meaning in the world. And these are all issues that I've been thinking about and writing about for a very long time.

I have always been appalled by the depiction of female CIA operatives.

I have always acted in films where women have an equal, if not bigger, role than mine. Don't the kind of films you do reflect your personality?

I've done shows before where it's supposed to be about the women, and then it quickly turns out it isn't.

You know how few movies there are in the world about women and their work? I mean, it's like 'Silkwood' and 'Erin Brokovich.' There are exceptions, but they are so exceptional.

We've done a couple of women's mags, but we tend to talk about feminism and women in the industry, which I feel more comfortable talking about. It's a more valuable discussion than, 'Oh, you're a girl in a band. What hair conditioner do you use?' I use hair conditioner, and I like talking about it. But I don't want that to be the question.

I was very, very pro-women many years ago.

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

There are some men who, in a spirit of arrogance, think they are superior to women. They do not seem to realize that they would not exist but for the mother who gave them birth. When they assert their superiority they demean her.