Rakhi Sawant Quotes

I'm not big on women looking naive.

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

I can tell you what women love, and that's when people man-splain things to us about what women want and need.

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

My mum is deeply, deeply a man's woman, a man's muse. Maybe because I'm a kid from the '80s, I'm a bit more dominant. I wanted to be the muse and the director also. I wanted to be the man and the woman.

Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that's partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.

There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.

I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.

All women like to look up to their men.

Women don't realize how powerful they are.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

My women characters should not exist only to play the 'love interest' of a male character.

People hold my father in very high esteem, but what was amazing was that nobody looked at me as a woman; I was never made aware of the fact that I am a woman.

Let's just start with the word 'diva.' It is obviously a sexist slight - a term that is only applied to women, almost always in a derogatory way. It's usually applied to women who are viewed as overly ambitious. It is applied to demanding women, to women who follow their own path.

Conservatives still attack feminism with the absurd notion that it makes its adherents less attractive to men; in truth, it is feminism that has made forty-two-year-old women so desirable.

I think objectifying women is not wrong if only her beauty is captured in an aesthetic manner.

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.

Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.

The anti-equality right wing has interests. We have to learn to stand up for our interests. To seek purity is self-defeating and a stereotype in itself: women have to be pure, women are not concerned about money.