Mary Elizabeth Winstead Quotes

For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.

It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the 'Barbie doll' roles.

On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol.

There are the aesthetic pressures for a woman to be pretty and sexy, but not sexual or have desires beyond winning a guy's affections.

There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine.

I think the pageant system is about empowering women. I think that aspect of it is great, but when you take parents who are forcing their children to do anything, I don't think it's healthy.

By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefront ads, magazine covers or TV shows, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.

I hate girls who complain, 'Oh, guys are looking at me!' But I love it when guys check me out. It just feels great.

My God, must I always wear a low-cut dress to be important?

I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.

All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

The great thing about 'Skins' is that it's not '90210.' We don't have to look stick-thin and ripped. Those shows send out the wrong messages by showing body-perfect people but not mentioning that they spend four hours a day in the gym to look that way.

When you look at movies, the lead girl is always gorgeous and thin. There is a stereotype that you need to look a certain way and when you get in the business you really feel the pressure.

Females want other females to be really strong, so there are a whole lot of scripts that are basically just male parts renamed as a girl.

Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.

Let me just say that every cover of every magazine I've done has been airbrushed to death. No woman should walk around thinking that's what they should be. You shouldn't be beating yourself up.

Women in Hollywood are tiny, but women in soap operas are the tiniest people alive!

If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.

The only moment I become aware of being the only woman in a meeting is when actresses are being discussed. If someone's critical of how a woman looks, they turn to me and apologize.

The fictional narratives that television, film, and the news provide for girls and young women are appalling.

If you're a young woman in Hollywood, then they want you to look a certain way and paint you in this and that.

I'm so aware how often women's bodies are objectified on film.

There's not a lot of positive role models of women in newspapers and magazines. I think it puts pressure on girls. They think that the image put out, it's the way you have to look.

Growing up, it was hard to associate with some of the women who were being portrayed in the media.