Sharmila Tagore Quotes

The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.

It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.

A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.

It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.

As a woman, I feel women get the shaft all the time.

The legal profession has been built by men for men in a man’s world. Women find it distinctly uncomfortable.

I don't personally feel like I've dealt with any sort of discrimination or sexism. I'm not doubting that there might have been that going on and I just didn't read it that way.

A number of women have reportedly been victims of what appear to be discriminatory decisions taken by Sharia councils, and that is a significant concern.

To set a trap for a handful of promiscuous individuals, the Zina law has laid a minefield for women in difficult circumstances.

If you're a woman and you're working, you're already set up for conflict.

Sometimes I feel that my message has not been clearly heard. But that is not my fault because I feel like too much is going on in terms of women being victims.

It's very difficult to be a woman in any industry.

Women, especially in rural India, have to undergo such suffering and pain. It is important for our cinema to address their pain, anger, and frustration.

It is outrageous that at this time in our country, women are still not paid as much as men.

The issues facing working women and their families are closest to my heart. I decided to focus intently on the challenges military wives face because they juggle the same pressures as their nonmilitary peers, all while coping as single parents while their loved ones are overseas. I wanted to help make their voices heard.

So this is feminist corner then.

I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women.

I think toilets are more important than temples.

He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.

Inevitably it's going to cause some terrible misogynist backlash, and I assume we'll look forward to eight years of jaw-droppingly sexist statements - the way we listened to eight years of racism around the presidency. It will be an argument before it's a conversation. But at least it's being had.

There is no issue that is not a women's issue.

I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.

The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.

As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women.

Woman's cause is one and universal.