Naomi Wolf Quotes

I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.

There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.'

There are not many roles where women are really active.

I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

As women and men, we're not primed and taught to feel that women are as inspirational as men.

You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.

People are calling a lot, sending scripts my way. Yes, it's wonderful because, let's face it, there aren't many wonderful scripts for women over the age of 10.

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

I think the media's a little frightened of women.

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.

Every single one of us who has been a 'Woman in Film' for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase 'Women in Film.'

I work in Britain, where women are allowed to look their age.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

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

I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we're held to.

You want to see women your own age in films.

It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still.

There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.

Women over 35 have great stories, and the actresses are there, but you can't get the movies made.