Carrie Fisher Quotes

MEN, Charlene said. Leave that to you! Willa quipped.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

When I hear the words 'Women should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen,' I think, 'What. A. Dream.' There are no negative connotations to it.

Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.

I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction.

Women must try to do things as men have tried.

Stop trying to be men. Let's be women. And let's let men be men. Let's empower them to be men, because I fell like they're falling away.

I want the kind of feminism that allows me to have a voice and to compete on equal terms with men yet still, potentially, to have one of them hurl me over their shoulder and carry me off somewhere, because I still find proper, old-fashioned masculinity deeply attractive.

I think women are strong, and they have never been weak.

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

I'm not trying to put our women on a pedestal that they don't deserve to be on. No man is a "man" without a woman: It's a woman that helps the man to be a man.

I feel like young girls are told, I don’t know, that they have to be this kind of princess and fragile. It’s bullshit. I identify much more with being a warrior, a fighter. If I was going to be a princess I’d be a warrior princess definitely.

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But... I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.

The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every point of thecompass, just as they do on man, and with more fatal results, for he has been trained to protect himself, to resist, to conquer.

Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thougt for a moment longer, then scowled. On second thoughts, what a nightmare that'd be. It's the job of a man to fan the spark into flames, not quench it.

Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.

I am such a tomboy. I grew up fighting with boys, mainly - beating up boys, actually.

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.

I'm not big on women looking naive.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

They had always told me that I wrote like a man.

This is the problem today. Men and women have switched places. The woman now acts more like the man.