Nora Ephron Quotes

And she's feeling like her worth is between her legs.

It is difficult for me to imagine the same dedication to women's rights on the part of the kind of man who lives in partnership with someone he likes and respects, and the kind of man who considers breast-augmentation surgery self-improvement.

I told my girls, 'Look at Rihanna: She's one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She's really famous, really powerful, really rich. Yet in every single video she can only wear panties. Poor Rhianna! We'll know when she is properly powerful and successful when we see her in a lovely cardigan.'

I enjoyed showing a bit more leg in the last few stories. It was good fun, but it can be quite sexist. But it doesn't worry me personally all that much.

A bunch of liberals wanted to outlaw men gazing at women because the gaze was said to objectify women. Sorry, liberals, it can't be helped among the heterosexual crowd.

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.

I don't agree with beauty contests. I did it one time. It wasn't embarrassing being Wonder Woman; it was embarrassing walking around on stage in a bikini. It was ridiculous, stupid, and humiliating.

Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over, and accept defeat? I hope not.

I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.

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...

The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

I've been writing about misogyny for 20 years and trying to understand what femininity means for my entire career.

We must be very careful when we say that somebody giving you compliments about your looks should be offensive. I think women really should look at why they're being offended by that.

I would say that, of course, it is wrong to objectify women. But at the same time, entertainment should not be inter-mingled with commodification.

I'm not a sex symbol.

I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.

I'm not a type of feminist who is afraid to be sexy.

I am not a sex symbol.

Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

To be honest, I really don't like being the sex object.

American women don't need to be lectured about values by men in Washington.