Richard Corliss Quotes

I have been watching how Indian women are forced to do certain things, as the stories of sacrifice and devotion in mythology demand from them. And then there are inspiring stories about women like the Rani of Jhansi that offer women refreshing role models.

Women who can, do. Those who can't become feminists.

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

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

Unless we're talking about old-school, witchcraft-trial violence, can we please phase out the phrase 'girl crush?' While we're at it, if we can axe 'like, total girl crush' unless Total Girl Crush is the name of a fizzy soft drink, in which case I'll take two, thank you.

If the preservation of the home means the enslavement of women, economically or morally, then we had better break it.

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

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.

Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that?

Why am I not feminist? Maybe because I come from a country where my mother ruled my life. I never felt in any way that I couldn't achieve what I want.

I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.

I can't stomach most of the movies about women.

It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlours.

My goal is to give young girls confidence in this world so they can be more like men in the decision-making process.

Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.

Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.

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.

Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I always thought was the core of 'Rosemary's Baby,' or the backlash against feminism which I always thought was the core to 'Stepford Wives.'

In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.

All women are the same, really: They are strong, but they are afraid of their own strength.