Julie Christie Quotes

Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.

I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.

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

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie.

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created in the human mind.

Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

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

Most of the Women's Libbers I knew really didn't want to have a piece of the men's pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didn't even want a slice of.

I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.

There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda, but it doesn't work that way.

Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them.

There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

Feminism is just an idea. It's a philosophy. It's about the equality of women in all realms. It's not about man-hating. It's not about being humorless. We have to let go of these misconceptions that have plagued feminism for 40, 50 years.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.

I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.

People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason.