I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.
Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.
So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.
If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.
I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.
It doesn't matter if they're in front of the camera or behind the camera. I know women who are producers who are surviving on nothing but juice and almonds.
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties.
I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.
The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were the chiefs. Societies were about balance.
The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.
For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune with your femininity, and still be equal.
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I find them extremely inspiring.
