Pedro Almodovar Quotes

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.

Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.

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

The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.

We are tired of having a 'sphere' doled out to us, and of being told that anything outside that sphere is 'unwomanly'. We want to be natural just for a change … we must be ourselves at all risks.

In India, I don't think any woman here is dictated what to wear, how to wear, whom to meet, when to meet... I am of the opinion, I don't think anybody is dictated here; you are not told.

The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

I never put a lot of praise on myself because of my relationship with Ike. I was just happy when I started to like myself - when I divorced and took control of my life.

I didn't want kabobs, Afghan music, and rules that required girls to be carefully monitored. I wanted mac and cheese, country music, and independence.

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.

I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person.

At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness.

It had never crossed my mind that a man could think he had the right to stop me from being who I was.

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.

And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.

I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.