Halima Aden Quotes

The more I photographed Muslim women, the more I was able to metaphorically strip away the burqas and hijabs, and start chipping away at the profound misconceptions that existed in other parts of the world about these women and their culture.

I don't just want to support only Muslim women. I want to inspire women across the board, and I'm hoping they won't allow things to get in the way.

Women leading big corporations or assuming various important social and political roles is still considered newsworthy, which clearly shows the need to further support and enhance the role of women in society.

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

People want to put women in one box, and I'm interested in how women can be everything at once.

Politics is a potent way to empower women.

When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up.

There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.

I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

As a woman, I have tried to take advantage of the extra access I have in the Muslim world: with Muslim women, for example. Many people underestimate women in that part of the world because, typically, they don't work.

We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

When they make a woman's picture, they treat it like a 'woman's picture.' In the '40s, they didn't treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. I'm upset that there's no 'Terminator' with a woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role. Because that would make just as much money.

The whole surf culture is starting to embrace women a lot more.

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.

How do I think the industry's changed? Films have changed a lot. I think women are finally able to get older and be sexy just like men. So I'm really enjoying that part - that's my evolution.

My child has changed things for me. Lately, I really wish there were greater roles for women. I think I see it in a different way now. I look at my little girl and I don't want her to think that all she has to be is pretty and quiet.

Women don't realize how powerful they are.

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

In the long term, female education may be the best way to advance the status of women.

Part of the problem is that many directors treat female characters too often as precious. Or they want to live in a fantasy world where they just do spinning hook kicks and knock out guys who are six foot four, and that doesn't work either.

I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.