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It is really a sad state of affairs if I am still the only commercially successful woman director. We need a lot more commercially viable women, not only in direction. ”
I am not anti-men, I believe truly that we are meant to be equal. We should be judged equally and I think I am a living example of feminism. ”
For the audience, actors carry out specific roles of men and women through the character that they play out on screen. The director on the other hand is not doing a gender-specific job. So, it is irrelevant if the person who makes a particular film is a man or a woman. ”
I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man. ”
We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them. ”
Whenever I told women - friends or acquaintances - that I had to go to divorce court, they'd invariably, without skipping a beat, ask, 'What are you going to wear?' It was like instant female solidarity: of course it mattered what I was going to wear. ”
Manspread, mansplaining, manterrupting - all of it, whether conscious or not, diminishes women's voices, minds, and bodies. ”
Black women have never embraced feminism. They didn't embrace it in the '50s and '60s; they're not embracing it now. That's not new. I think it's a tendency among women in general not to be supportive of each other. ”
Derogatory against women - it seems that Trump is not too keen about having women around him, maybe except for his wife and daughter. ”
We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues. ”