Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
Today's women are not dependent, and I think it's the biggest sense of freedom.
In the past, I have played the roles of subdued, self-sacrificing women. But we need to show our women as bolder individuals. I know this will happen.
Let women be provided with living strength of their own.
I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other.
Empowering women means trusting them.
It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.
All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn't do. But it seems to me that isn't our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it.
In 1990, when they asked me to shoot a cover for 'British Vogue' to convey my personal vision of a woman, I explained that I couldn't just photograph one single girl, because what I was looking for was a new purpose, and new feminine determination.
I'm a big supporter of women doing anything they want to do!
I want women to know all around the world that they have the power!
I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be.
I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.
Female empowerment is always something that I've felt. It's not about just being a model; it's about women in general.
Women today have the keys to the doors which have been barred against them and they will open them without asking consent.
Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow a worse guide.
Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.
Women will work out their destinies — much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women.
I've tried to choose roles where women are not just reacting or waiting for something to happen.
