Andrea Riseborough Quotes

There is a sense that women are more anchored than men in our society.

I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.

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

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'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliche. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves.

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.

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

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

No one knows what women want!

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.

I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism' because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood.

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.

In the name of feminism, we denied some essential aspects of our authentic selves. While feminism should have been nothing if not a celebration of our own unique characteristics, we insisted that we had no unique characteristics... that gender differences were hogwash, and a feminine woman was nothing more than a plaything for men.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

For years, despite my inner doubts, I represented to others my choice to veil as a feminist one.

Women aren't supposed to want stuff. They're not supposed to have high emotions.

I had no interest in people telling me to be feminine, to be ladylike, to wear dresses - it just made me rebel completely.

We're told that to be successful girls, we have to be small and quiet. Yet to be successful humans, we have to become big and have a voice. There's an inherent contradiction.

Being a woman means everything to me.

There's a lot of stupid men out there who feel like makeup is a betrayal of the truth, and that is so funny to me.

I don't feel ashamed to be loud, which is an argument I've had with lots of men, who thought I was too sassy and unladylike.

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