Romy Schneider Quotes

Being a woman means everything to me.

I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.

I've kind of stepped into my femininity.

Transformation as a female actor is allowed up to a certain extent - as long as they can still recognize you on a red carpet. For a woman to be a shape-shifter, and to be that malleable in spirit, is really not OK with the patriarchy.

I think I was aware when I started doing stand-up, especially on my own, that, yeah, I'm getting up on stage, and I'm a woman, and I dress in a sort of typically feminine fashion.

As it pertains to my black womanhood, there's just a lot of ground to cover. There's a lot of stuff to say.

A woman's body and a woman's image is a very political thing, so I trust another woman to understand what that's like and how to portray it in a way people can relate to.

I'm a woman, so I'm going to be woman as much as I can.

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

There's so much to becoming a woman.

I think there are parts of myself in every character I play.

I liked the fact that Lois was one person with Clark and another with Superman. I think that, as women, we do that a lot when we fall in love.

I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

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.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me.

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me.

I do fairly represent Middle Eastern women.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.

I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.

A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.