Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.
I liked the fact that there were so many different representations of black women and black men in the movie. It wasn't like we all had the same agenda.
Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.
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.
Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.
My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.
My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women, and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.
I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.
As women, we tend to take the easy way out in showbiz. I have done movies where all I did was look pretty in every frame.
You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all.
I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.
If you've been on the covers of some magazines and been in a few movies that have been seen by people, for some reason, women seem to be drawn to you.
Richard Hannay: There are 20 million women in this island and I've got to be chained to you.
The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.
The only thing that can create discord between friends is money and women.
Don’t ever compliment me by insulting other women. That’s not a compliment, it’s a competition none of us agreed to.
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
