Diana Silvers Quotes

You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.'

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

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

Just because we are women doesn't mean the only roles we can play are that of the finger-shaking girlfriend.

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

I like to play strong women.

Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.

It's not often you get female characters who don't fit into a box.

I think women are very complicated human beings, and I think there's an oversimplification of women when you see them on screen.

There's no prize for being the best woman.

I was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.

I'm a woman, so I'm going to be woman as much as I can.

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

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

If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.

People want to put women in one box, and I'm interested in how women can be everything at once.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

A lot of times, I get asked, 'Do you feel you have a responsibility to young girls to be a role model?' I don't see that happening as much to guys. I feel like, just because I'm a girl, I'm supposed to take more responsibility? Is that how it works?

I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we're held to.

We make a lot of mistakes for women, and we'll always do it again.

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

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.

I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist.

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.