Female Complexity Quotes

Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.

Why was it important for women to be only nice? Why can't she have dark layers? So when they came to me - films like 'Maqbool' and 'Astitva' - they just grabbed me, and I wanted to be part of them.

In the early fight for women's rights, the point was not that women were morally superior or better. The conversation was about the difference between men and women - power, privilege, voting rights, etc. Unfortunately, it quickly moved to the "women are better" argument. If this were true in life or in fiction, we wouldn't have any dark or deep characters. We wouldn't have any Salomes, Carmens, Ophelias. We wouldn't have any jealousy or passion.

Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy

I just appreciate all the facets of a woman.

Women are not allowed to be [complicated] in our society. We're comfortable seeing women as great mothers, and then we're comfortable seeing them as hookers, but there's no in-between.

I always found growing up that, even inspiring female characters or complex female characters in TV and film... I often found that their complexity was actually just another facet of their sexuality.

I'm just interested in all of the different ways that a woman can be. We don't have enough, when it comes to American film, that shows all of the different complexities and ways that a woman is interesting and mysterious and dynamic and really complicated.

I like any film where the female characters are complex and have a functioning imperfection.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

It's important to say women are complex.

The women I cast have to embody all sorts of contradictions... I have to find the right woman to speak to other women.

The performances that I love are ones like Gena Rowlands in 'A Woman Under the Influence,' where women are allowed to be messy and imperfect. It's that kind of woman that has always inspired me to seek roles that are a little out of the box. I just haven't always had the opportunity to do them.

Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.

It's wonderful to be appreciated for being quirky, and to see Zooey Deschanel and the quirky, indie film types get mainstream play is amazing for women, because women are much more complicated than what we've see on TV in the past.

Look at history; all the interesting women were deeply flawed.

Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought into making you.

Young girls need to see women who are strong and vulnerable and complex onscreen.

As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.

As a feminist, just to speak to what women go through, I think women are put in a box way too often. What I love about 'You're the Worst' is that no female character is portrayed as a black-and-white cartoon character. We're all complicated, messy human beings.

The mysteries of the female sex! We men can never hope to fathom your depths, but only try not to drown in them.

Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.

There seems to be great roles for women, and it's not necessarily - you don't have to be young women. Suddenly, we're realizing that, generally, women are interesting, and they can also be weird and crazy and mean.