Unconventional Women Quotes

Women behaving badly has always been funny, to me personally, so I knew I wanted to do something like that.

Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.

we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud

I'm Fasinated by women who aren't making a great impression on people. I think there's probably something there that is more than meets the eye.

I think that the boy-woman is a very strong image and a lot of fascinating women are like that: Gala [Dalí].

Part of the joy of my career, for me, has been giving these iconic females a bit of shading of that unapologetic female vibe. I think it's an interesting approach.

I realize I love crazy ladies. Of course I don't like to think of myself as one, but maybe I am, too. I dunno. I'm always drawn to them; I think it's because I'm attracted to people who aren't in the business of people-pleasing: saying what they really think, not passive-aggressive at all.

The characters that I want to play are interesting women. I don't care if they're good women or bad women or vulnerable women or women with a lot of faults or women that we dislike intensely who are malicious.

In general, I'm fascinated by women who exist outside of society's mores and values.

To this day, I feel a fierce warmth for women that have the same disregard for the social conventions of sexual protocol as I do. I love it when I meet a woman and her sexuality is dancing across her face, so it's apparent that all we need to do is nod and find a cupboard.

The universal social pressure upon women to be all alike, and do all the same things, and to be content with identical restrictions, has resulted not only in terrible suffering in the lives of exceptional women, but also in the loss of unmeasured feminine values in special gifts. The Drama of the Woman of Genius has too often been a tragedy of misshapen and perverted power.

The fact that I haven't been married might qualify me as belonging in the nutty category to a lot of women.

How can you be afraid of women?” “Those ain’t normal women.