I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.
Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes and makeup on screen.
I was one of the first women producers in Hollywood.
We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women!
Even in Los Angeles, where we lived, when we would date somebody or go out with them, if we went out with somebody else the next night, we often found that women were banging on our windows while we were bedded down with other women!
I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.
I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally ...
I find that women... deal with immigration differently. And I'm interested in that.
Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.
I've always had a booty even when I was a baby, and when I was in high school and was skinny, I still had the booty. In Hollywood's eyes, the perfect women has to be a stick figure, tall, blonde hair, with big boobs.
I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.
The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.
I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.
New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.
I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.
I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.
I think there is a long exploration in American drama of women in particular who, by force of circumstances or because they are predisposed to, choose fantasy over reality.
Conservatism is affecting the way women perceive who they are in the world.
I applaud Women in Film - not only for celebrating the successes of women, but for providing a safety network to mentor women and to discuss the particular issues that arise in a very male-dominated industry.
