Liz Phair Quotes

There's this whole feeling that women should be small and quiet and polite, and I don't think that's really gotten us anywhere.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost.

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.

Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.

We're coming into a new generation of women where there's the submissive woman, and then our reaction to it is, 'No, I'm a man, too, and I'm masculine,' and then we fight against it, which isn't the answer, either.

I believe women should be feminine.

We live in a culture that does not encourage women to be epic heroes of their own Big Stories but the mothers and lovers and wives and mistresses and muses and personal assistants, the femme fatales and fantasies and manic pixie dream girls, in someone else's Big Story, and this someone else is usually a dude.

I don't think women are that vastly different from men. I'm a bit of a woman myself. But I'm not a feminist filmmaker. I'm not making a feminist thesis to prove that women are important. I just happen to make films with strong characters that are women.

I'm very much a girls' girl and a real feminist.

Women throughout history have had to defy rigid conventions about what is and is not expected of them.

It's kind of hard to retain the feminine. I have so much respect for the feminine, but it's actually something I have to work for.

When I grew up, it was a time when women were just supposed to be cute and not have many opinions. My mother and her friends were quite different. They were all the most beautiful women you've ever seen ... and they were very strong women.

Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature.

I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.

I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.

Though it's safe to say there are a whole lotta American gals who agree with the core ideals of feminism, they are somehow nevertheless watching 'Say Yes to the Dress' by the millions.

Our daughters were coming of age during a rising consciousness about gender equality. Throughout their school years - from kindergarten through graduate school, 1972 to 1992 - women were starting to take their places in areas traditionally reserved mostly for men.

What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.

The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.