Susanna Moore Quotes

What does it mean, being a woman?

Being a woman means everything to me.

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'm really interested in women of different generations... I think there is no one female experience.

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

I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.

The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.

For me, being a woman suits what I want to talk about and what my audience wants to hear. Maybe I'm a dying breed.

If there's a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it's always seen as meant to pull in the male gaze.

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

Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune with your femininity, and still be equal.

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.

A woman is a woman!

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.

I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism' because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood.

Femininity can be a powerful thing.

I think, with my own daughters, rather than preaching a feminine agenda, I just really try to help them understand what it meant to be a woman in the late 20th century and the consciousness of how to be a woman in the 21st century: What is working for you and what is working against you.

I certainly don't think of my life as a fairy tale. I think of myself as a modern, contemporary woman who has had to deal with all kinds of problems that many women today have to deal with.

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.

Every time a confident, successful woman like Marissa Meyer distances herself from feminism, I think of Athena. Athena women, with all their brilliance and strategy, are the ones smashing up through layers of glass. They tend to identify with men, keeping femininity at a distance.

Maybe a young woman will go see a show by a woman, or starring a woman about women's issues, and that will help her get to that quiet place inside of herself where she can then explore what it means to be a woman to her.

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

I'm strong. I'm outspoken. I feel like I'm equal to men. I can walk in the woods just as much and as far as a man can. Yet I'm still female. I'm very female.

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.