Minnie Driver Quotes

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

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.

There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost.

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.

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

One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

Women have to be pure and respectful.

There's this whole feeling that women should be small and quiet and polite, and I don't think that's really gotten us anywhere.

Women aren't supposed to want stuff. They're not supposed to have high emotions.

I do not subscribe to a feminism that demands perfection or super heroic nobility of women. But I do insist that putting women at the service of patriarchy is no victory for us.

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.

Women throughout history have had to defy rigid conventions about what is and is not expected of them.

It's hard for women every single day; we have to be nice, but not too nice, ambitious, but not too ambitious. It puts a lot of pressure on what we should and can be.

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.

Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.

I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.

Why am I not feminist? Maybe because I come from a country where my mother ruled my life. I never felt in any way that I couldn't achieve what I want.

'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.