Sophie Rundle Quotes

I think the media's a little frightened of women.

I was just nine years old when 'Straw Dogs' came out, so I can't really speak to the women of the time, but I can tell you that the women of 2011 are not put-upon, and they're not victims.

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

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.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

I can't stomach most of the movies about women.

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don't think that's true. I think that's one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

Women on television are not a fad; we are not a trend - we are a reality!

I keep trying to imagine a universe in which too many public figures declaring themselves feminists would be a bad thing.

The days of the misogynistic Bond are sort of over.

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

I do not consider myself a feminist. I do not believe that by doing female-oriented films that depict a woman fighting the system, we can change the system.

One thing I've always been concerned about is the objectification of women in ads, and that's one thing where I was like, 'Well, if I become a part of advertising, I could change that.'

There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.

Women don't realize how powerful they are.

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.

No nation can ever be worthy of its existence that cannot take its women along with the men. No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women