Jane Fonda Quotes

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

A sex-symbol becomes a thing, I just hate being a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of.

I told my girls, 'Look at Rihanna: She's one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She's really famous, really powerful, really rich. Yet in every single video she can only wear panties. Poor Rhianna! We'll know when she is properly powerful and successful when we see her in a lovely cardigan.'

People should realize women aren't just whores or virgins, I want to see women who are real human beings.

There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine.

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

Perhaps some of the appeal of the dangerous-but-yummy paranormal anti-hero lies in his scorn for societal expectations. Yes, women have come a long way, but there are still some cultural stigmas more associated with women than men.

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.

All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols.

I am not a sex symbol.

I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object.

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.

When people say, 'You're perceived as a sex symbol,' I love the idea of that because it's so absurd.

On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol.

I was groomed as a so-called sex symbol, a rival to Marilyn Monroe, and from then on, whenever my picture appeared in paper, it was 'sex kitten,' 'sex symbol,' 'sex goddess,' 'sex pot.' I've accepted it, and I'm flattered, but in some ways, it's been a hindrance to me because I haven't been able to be taken seriously as an actress.

My women characters should not exist only to play the 'love interest' of a male character.

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.

I am a feminist. I reject wholeheartedly the way we are taught to perceive women. The beauty of women, how a woman should act or behave. Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft-spoken and loud, all at once. There is something mind-controlling about the way we're taught to view women.

Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.

The plight of the actor, even if he's a star, is the plight of the women's movement. They're saying the same thing to us: get into bed, give me a good time, then give me something to eat, go get the laundry, be a good girl.

Female Chauvinist Pigs is smart, alarming, and extremely funny. With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expos of sex and desire in contemporary America and an important cultural history. I'm giving a copy to my mother. And my sons.

If you’re not a sex object, you’re in trouble.

Sex is the refuge of the mindless. And the more mindless the woman, the more deeply embedded in the male "culture," in short, the nicer she is, the more sexual she is. The nicest women in our "society" are raving sex maniacs.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.