Jennifer Saunders Quotes

For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.

I don't aspire to be a sex icon, I don't know why anyone would. It's an uncomfortable position to put yourself in... it's something that we all haven't really made our minds up about, and that's why we find it all so interesting.

There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.

I didn't want to be the girl who posed in 'Playboy' and then - by the way - made some music.

I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

I wish no teams had cheerleaders. I find it more distracting than anything else.

I hate girls who complain, 'Oh, guys are looking at me!' But I love it when guys check me out. It just feels great.

I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.

Brooke and I share some similarities. We're both passionate, fiercely loyal people. But she is far more outlandish than I'd ever be, particularly with her body and her sexuality. Brooke has made herself weak for men - she only gained self-confidence from their attention.

All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols.

I enjoyed showing a bit more leg in the last few stories. It was good fun, but it can be quite sexist. But it doesn't worry me personally all that much.

You cannot separate sexuality from cheerleading. It is inherently what it is - growing up with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders and all of that stuff.

To be honest, I really don't like being the sex object.

People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite.

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

God forbid that women have fantasies.

Wonder Woman is not sufficiently dressed.

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

Young action heroines feel in service of male gaze, rather than being the full complexity of a human being.

I've heard people say to me, 'How can you claim to be a feminist when you dress like that?' I wear a lot of slip dresses and nightwear and stuff. People always question my credibility because of that: 'Oh, are you selling sex? Are you doing this or that to be recognized more or to sell your music?' No, it's just a fashion thing for me.

We live in a culture that does not encourage women to be epic heroes of their own Big Stories but the mothers and lovers and wives and mistresses and muses and personal assistants, the femme fatales and fantasies and manic pixie dream girls, in someone else's Big Story, and this someone else is usually a dude.

Miley Cyrus epitomises what we have allowed. She has done it to break the mould. I can understand why, but we have given her the oxygen of publicity and encouraged it, so young girls will think it is the right way to attract men. We've lost our standards.

It sucks. When you're a woman in sports, people want you to show some skin.

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'