Suzy Amis Quotes

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.

We know in our society, women are valued for their sexual desirability and not necessarily for what they have to say.

There are the aesthetic pressures for a woman to be pretty and sexy, but not sexual or have desires beyond winning a guy's affections.

Girls are supposed to dance. That's why god gave them parts that jiggle.

I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.

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.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

From a male perspective, you don't think about how much outward pressure and importance you put on how women look.

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.

My God, must I always wear a low-cut dress to be important?

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

You can get a man's attention if you got a pair of boobs and a butt. I hate to simplify them down so much, but I think it's true.

I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye.

If I have chosen the female form in particular, it is because beauty has been debased and exploited in our sensual 20th century.

There's nothing wrong with looking at a woman's kneecaps.

Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.

I realized early on that I always hated girls who used their femininity to get what they wanted.

Women have to show that tummy to stay noticed.

I think that female roles, they can be victims, they can be sympathetic, they can be in pain, they can be in suffering - but they can't be ugly. I think there's so much fear surrounding that, that it makes a film unlikeable, that it won't sell.

The roles I used to be cast for were typically objectified women, so I was always being shown or spoken about through the lens of the guy.

You didn't have to read 'Playboy,' visit the mansion, wear pajamas, or even be straight: The effects of its ideas about women on the American psyche were totalizing. Women were inferior to men because, for 'Playboy,' they were scenery - pretty, passive, usually white, often blonde, there.

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.

So many women characters are extensions of male fantasy.

The way my body is viewed in the world is different than a male body. People are going to write about the performance, but they're probably also going to be writing about what I was wearing or my hair, which just doesn't happen to men.