Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.
There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.
I think the idea that women can stand up and be strong and still be seen as beautiful and sexual is kind of cool, and I would like to see more of that.
As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.
One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change.
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if they can make women fertile after menopause.
Well, you know my number one cause has always been that women's reproductive health needs to be protected.
Research clearly shows us that the earlier women think about maintaining their bone mass and take the steps to do so, the better their health will be in the long run.
Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion.
Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women.
For many young women, the dream of independence and a home of their own is a tantalising goal, while a lifetime devoted solely to catering for another person's needs would be hard to countenance.
Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?
Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn't try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.
I just hope that people, women specifically, embrace that side of themselves that maybe is a little nuts or that society tells us is crazy.
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.
History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.
Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.
