Mia Goth Quotes

So many women characters are extensions of male fantasy.

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.

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

There's an unfair position that women are sometimes put in, in the context of superhero movies and action movies, where at once they have to be very strong and fierce but also sexy.

Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.

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.

I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.

I like female directors that gravitate toward masculine things. I think the danger of a male director is the over-fetishization of the masculinity.

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.

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.

I think all things are political... How women are portrayed - that's a big thing for me. What is this role trying to say about women? Is this woman weak or victimised, and, if so, do we get to understand why?

The word 'Playboy' alone doesn't exactly give most women a warm, fuzzy feeling, yet many of the Playboy photos end up in the most praised photo and art magazines and in critically acclaimed photo exhibitions.

Long before the writer Gillian Flynn popularized the concept of the insufferable 'Cool Girl,' who doesn't exist except in men's fervent fantasies, Hugh Hefner dreamed her, undressed her, and put her in his magazine.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?'

If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'

I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.

Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.

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

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.

It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the 'Barbie doll' roles.

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.