Joan Crawford Quotes

I'm quite drawn to women artists who use themselves in their work. There is a very feminine point of view, the use of female archetypes. I love artists who play with those kind of things genuinely.

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

I think it's great for the women to show that they are women and be feminine. And that's something that I've always promoted.

It is possible to say that all of my books concern themselves with the notion of what it means to be female - whether it is in New York City in 2000 or Calcutta in 1836. In that way, my books really are the same.

I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.

I'm enjoying being a woman on-screen.

People look at me as an exotic person, which is great, because whatever Hollywood is, it seems very dogmatic to me, especially when you're a woman. But I always get excused because I'm German.

How many big American films do you see where the heroine has no vanity whatsoever?

Over the years, the writers at DC Comics softened Wonder Woman's powers in ways that would have infuriated Marston. During the 1960s, she was hardly wondrous at all, less a heroic warrior than the tomboyish girl next door. It was no longer clear whether she was meant to empower the girls or captivate the boys.

What's happening with feminism in general is I think that, as a woman, you're not limited to being one thing or the other. You can be feminine and sexy and beautiful and hot and funny.

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

I love being a female rapper and embracing my sexuality.

I'm a woman, so I'm going to be woman as much as I can.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.

I thought Charlize Theron was awesome in 'Mad Max,' and that was a very masculine kind of hero.

I don't think it's not feminist to use every tool you have to succeed, and part of that is being a woman - presenting yourself in a certain way.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

My entire career stands on the strong pillars of women-oriented films. This stems from the fact that I am sensitive to the entire aura and mystique of a woman and womanhood.

You know, she was a girl. She was a female. And she wasn't like, trying to compete in a man's world and she wasn't trying to be in a man's position, she was just who she was. And I think that was like, a good thing.

I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

I think that Hollywood misconstrues actresses saying, 'Oh I wanna play a strong female character,' like we all want to play, like, superheroes or something.

There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.

We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

There's no need for a female character that does things like a male character; that's not what makes interesting female characters in my view.