Florence Pugh Quotes

I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

Being the first female Doctor and showing children that their heroes in shows don't always look the same is a huge honour for me.

I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world.

I do think it's well over-time to have a female Doctor Who. I think a gay, black female Doctor Who would be the best of all.

I think we can topple the patriarchy by using our voices to speak out against things that aren't right and that we don't agree with. I think for people who are not people of color or members of the LGBT community, it is being an ally and being an advocate in spaces that people of color or members of the LGBT community can't really get into.

It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody.

I'm just glad that there's some diversity in the music industry with women so people know that you can be literally anything and still be able to make it.

Since 'Christine' started screening, I'm overwhelmed by the response from women and men - that it's so rare to see something like this. We're just not given the opportunity so much.

I think there's always a way to bring something, even if it is just the girlfriend role, as long as you're playing it with an idea of who that person is on their own, away from the male character.

We just want to be sure that what we're creating is pushing the ball forward for women and diversity in media.

One of the things about the Constitution - that our forefathers wrote, and basically, there were none of our foremothers that were there. There were none of our fore-sisters there. There are changes that can take place, and there is room to change.

I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment.

I try not to write songs in which men glamorize their own need for approval from women. That's kinda a bogus way to go out. But I try to do this quietly. I'm not about to go around telling people how they should or shouldn't think. My feminism is for me.

Four out of five HSN corporate officers are women. I'm a believer that a diversity of mindset enables us to have an engaged conversation.

Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself.

'Hollywood maids' are so idiotic. They grin at everything. I told Norman Lear I didn't want to play a maid because of that 'hee-hee/grin-grin' attitude, and he said, 'Who said I wanted that?' He told me he wanted two strong women that are the black and white of the same coin. I said, 'Oh, well - in that case, I'll be right there!'

When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.

I'd like to reach out to more women and different body types.

I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.

I think the idea that women can stand up and be strong and still be seen as beautiful and sexual is kind of cool, and I would like to see more of that.

I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.

The man of the millennium is much more liberated than the man of the '90s.