Rose Leslie Quotes

I'm personally fed up with people seeing women and girls cast as victims.

A lot of animated movies in the past have sort of relied on these archaic tropes on what the female characters in those movies can be and who they are.

I think, so often, women play supporting roles or girlfriends or wives - they're there to support a man's journey.

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

For 150 years a woman was regarded as some kind of prostitute if she wanted to go into business….Young girls were supposed to have their focus on motherhood and babies.

It's not often you get female characters who don't fit into a box.

Women's roles in the movies remain, for the most part, girlfriends, mothers, wives.

Half the world is full of women, but it's rare to hear a narrative that doesn't speak of women as the people who have things done to them instead of the people who do things. More often, women are talked about as a man's daughter. A man's wife.

I feel it's so rare that young females are portrayed as being anything more than a stereotype.

When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home.

There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.

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

I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

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.

I don't write women who are weak or simpering.

Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.'

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

I don't think women in India are vulnerable.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.