Aparna Sen Quotes

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.

There are not many roles where women are really active.

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.

When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.

'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.

Naturally, my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men who write mostly about men. I'm not always sure what is meant by 'feminist.' In the beginning, I used to say, 'Well, of course I'm a feminist.' But if it means that I follow a kind of feminist theory, or know anything about it, then I'm not.

Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.

A lot of people don't understand what feminism is. They think it is about advance and success for women, but it's not that at all. It is about power for the female left. And they have this, I think, ridiculous idea that American women are oppressed by the patriarchy and we need laws and government to solve our problems for us.

I don't know why women aren't allowed to have the same sort of breadth and scope and flaws of men.

I'm working hard to break free of stereotypes that the film industry has created and nurtured around women.

Although I often find that the feminist rhetoric - not feminism - can come across as simple-minded, self-regarding, nuance-averse and reductive - biology to physiology, history to psychology, procreation to gynecology, and so on - I have come to realize that we should all be feminists.

If you go into the mainstream with a female perspective that seems to resonate with a lot of people, you have a political agenda imposed on you: you are told that you are a feminist.

Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships - someone always wins.

...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists.

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

I didn't see myself as any advance guard, or feminist.

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.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.