Daphne Ashbrook Quotes

I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

What I get a bit angry about is the image of women.

I think women are sick and tired of being portrayed as victims, a lot of the time anyway, the bulk of their time on film.

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.

I used to be very interested in the history of women's rights in this country and in other countries. I tried to learn as much as I could about it, and more than anything, I would be called gay. It was phenomenal. But if a boy has something to say, he is appreciated; he's even popular. If a girl says something, it's instantly a threat.

I am particularly distressed when people in the public eye who influence our culture perpetuate sexism.

In Spanish, we have a saying: 'The woman and the frying pan belong in the kitchen.' Ohhhh, I hate it!

Patriarchy doesn't just make men out to be ogres. Women buy into the patriarchy as well, and women make those comments as well, like, 'Boys will be boys.' Women have to undo that stuff, too.

Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

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

For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.

Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'

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

I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not.

The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.

Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man.

I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?

'True Detective' would not pass The Bechdel Test.