One of the reasons for the failure of feminism to dislodge deeply held perceptions of male and female behavior was its insistence that women were victims, and men powerful patriarchs, which made a travesty of ordinary people's experience of the mutua...
Female genital mutilation targets little girls, baby girls - fragile angels who are helpless, who cannot fight back. It's a crime against a child, a crime against humanity. It's abuse. It's absolutely criminal and we have to stop it.
I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has bee...
I can't live in a world where there are only, like, four kinds of women. Or where every woman is obsessed with cake. The very least I ask is that we have one female character in the world who likes savory things! I don't have any role models who like...
I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. T...
I was raised primarily by women. I had a mother who almost killed herself to survive, I had a sister who was eight years older who was like a second mother, and my mother had two sisters. In the environment I grew up in, I heard a lot of female persp...
I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of female oppression, avoid the issue by pointing to examples of what they view as Western mistreatment of women, or even worse, justify the oppression ...
...if you're an artist, you've submitted to authority...
All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.
I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.
A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.
We are all born artists... Almost everything kids do is art.
You must be an artist and an actor.
Artists are the serfs of a leisure society.
Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.
