Rachel Khoo Quotes

I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?'

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

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.

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

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.

It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the 'Barbie doll' roles.

Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.

Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.

Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.

I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.

For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.

I think that female roles, they can be victims, they can be sympathetic, they can be in pain, they can be in suffering - but they can't be ugly. I think there's so much fear surrounding that, that it makes a film unlikeable, that it won't sell.

The only moment I become aware of being the only woman in a meeting is when actresses are being discussed. If someone's critical of how a woman looks, they turn to me and apologize.

We know in our society, women are valued for their sexual desirability and not necessarily for what they have to say.

The roles I used to be cast for were typically objectified women, so I was always being shown or spoken about through the lens of the guy.

What women represent to the male is, historically, a big burden. It's a lovely dream, but it's the stuff of literature, art, and everything. Living up to what the male psyche projects onto the female is the stuff of books. You'd need a lot more than an interview to go into it!

I have absolutely no problem being thought of as an action chick because, quite frankly, very few women have ever done that.

So many women characters are extensions of male fantasy.

So often, in films, there are two ways a female can be portrayed: either innocent and virginal or the complete opposite.

I'm so aware how often women's bodies are objectified on film.

Half the world is full of women, but it's rare to hear a narrative that doesn't speak of women as the people who have things done to them instead of the people who do things. More often, women are talked about as a man's daughter. A man's wife.

You can't say that we need to give women more roles, and then when we do, say that they're only there because men want to look at them.

People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.

I'm not sure if I should say this, and it might sound arrogant of me, but I think there is a tendency to view female characters as consumer products.

I think we're still struggling to find a way of depicting women that doesn't objectify them.