An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.
For me, getting off the sidelines means women making a difference by letting their voices be heard on the issues they care about.
So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?
I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.
I think jewelry is beautiful on all women and I think it's sentimental - and Disney is sentimental. It's subtle and it's low-key and it's just a sweet reminder of sweetness.
Women do well in their thirties. They put their bags down and say, 'This is who I am - like it or lump it.' There is a more relaxed quality, which I like.
I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse.
Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.
Every single one of us who has been a 'Woman in Film' for more than five minutes is sick of the phrase 'Women in Film.'
Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.
The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.
Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
It's more acceptable for guys to get old and craggy and become wonderful character actors as they get older, but women aren't allowed to get old and craggy in the same way.
Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.
For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.
As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work.
We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.
Everyday I find myself reminding women around me to know their value. I also have to remind myself.
In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room.
A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
What I think is wonderful is that women are not just avengers or victims in films. They are people. They are characters. It's so refreshing. They're playing different kinds of characters, and they aren't being typecast.
