Kate Winslet Quotes

People give me such a hard time because I don't wear dresses. What's that got to do with anything?

There are so many women out there who are single moms, really not by choice, and doing it and making it work every day. I think it's becoming much more a part of our culture and I hope that it will become more accepted and that those women are going to be more and more appreciated, respected and supported.

I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.

There were so many stories about Bing's daughter living in sin. We weren't hurting anyone. We were living in love. I couldn't understand why people were trying to hurt us and hurt our families.

A word, for example, that is negative, pejorative, and has caused more pain and suffering is 'illegitimate.' But every person has a mother and father. It is another way we let society hurt others.

I'm harsh on myself. But let's be honest: I'm not as harsh as the online one-star critic who says, 'This book is boring and stupid and smells like poo.'

Women say things that are direct - they are told they are too abrasive. I got that feedback in the corporate world.

Being falsely accused of racism is, at best, unpleasant and at worst, can destroy a career.

I wasn't just known as one of the singers in Little Mix, I was known as 'the fat, ugly one'.

It sucks, being perceived as a person that you're not; it sucks being hated.

I take my hat off to working mums and especially single working mums. I honestly don't know how they do it.

It's really hard just making dinner as a single parent, but I'm figuring it out. I just have to be more focused and efficient with my little scraps of time that I do have.

In the past when I was on protests, it was always people shouting out of the cars, 'get a job, get a bath, get a haircut.' So, am I a dole-scrounging hippie, or am I middle class and privileged? Just by stepping forward, somehow you become scrutinized, rather than the actual issues that count.

Imagine just wanting to share photos of my kid and instead being told I'm unfit to be his mom because of my size.

Anywhere, you're going to get people who are ignorant or rude but it's not the whole of society. I don't think my life is doomed because I look like this.

It is quite hurtful when people make a judgement without even really watching me and saying things like, 'I'm not watching if she's on' or 'I don't like change.'

Growing up raising three boys on your own is either gonna make you strong or make you crazy. It definitely made my mom strong.

I am very much aware that I am considered a 'strong woman.' And I am also aware that that is only because I had a child outside wedlock.

My mum's a single mum, I'm a single mum, and you do find yourself rushing around just to make sure everything's all right.

People pass a lot of judgment about each other in India, and that is a tendency I don't like.

I knew from a very, very early age that I was gay, although in the social environment in Venezuela, you don't ever let that be known.

A woman will always be made to feel like a criminal, whatever choice she makes, however hard she tries. Mothers feel like criminals. Non-mothers do, too.

I have had people come up to me in the street - one woman actually told me she hated my accent, she can't believe I'm on the telly and my accent is so annoying. I ended up laughing because I thought, 'this person doesn't know me but she felt she could come up and slate my accent.'

I am trying to be both mother and father to my children.

Everything Neymar does turns into news. If he gets emotional, they criticise. If he colours his hair, they criticise.