Janet Fitch Quotes

The way I feel seen by the opposite sex is sometimes really detrimental to me. I'm very aware of how I'm constantly being sexualized and objectified in their eyes which makes me feel worthless.

From a male perspective, you don't think about how much outward pressure and importance you put on how women look.

So often, women are there just to be looked at and be objectified for the titillation of the male audience.

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

I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

My God, must I always wear a low-cut dress to be important?

Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one.

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

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.

He considers me just a uterus with legs.

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.

When Trump says no one loves women more than he does, what exactly is he referring to? Fantasizing about them on the 'Access Hollywood' bus? Placing them only in professional roles that answer to him?

You can't say that we need to give women more roles, and then when we do, say that they're only there because men want to look at them.

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked women. Women's magazines also feature pictures of naked women. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is lumpy and hairy and should not be seen by the light of day. Men are turned on at the sight of a naked woman's body. Most naked men elicit laughter from women.

The word “future” and females is a dangerous combination.

I also have to be careful of what it says about women. I get a lot of scripts that only talk about women's appearances and what they look like. I think we're tired of having to meet this standard and not being asked what our talents or abilities are.

People aren't comfortable thinking of women as people. Like we're not people, we're women, and that means something completely different, especially when you have power.

I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to lives either of narrowest toil or senseless luxury and vanity, and then sneer at the smallness of our aims, the pettiness of our thoughts, the puerility of our conversation!

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

I never say 'nagging.' I think that 'nagging' is a term that men created to get women to pipe down some. But, it's a trap that we've created. We created several terms for women to back you down. Nagging means to stop asking me questions, then we get away with more. I think it's a term men created.

Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.

There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.