Rules like 'don't wear white after Labor Day' or 'shoes matching the handbag' are antiquated. Modern women should feel free to experiment.
Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.
My whole drive to be an actor was finding roles that I really believed represent modern women, the struggles that we deal with. Women who are strong and capable and in control of their own lives.
Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.
Women aren't as mere as they used to be.
Modern women - we're very good at keeping ourselves busy. There are PTA meetings, exercising, bake sales at school. I like that my life is not the same every day.
I like a girl with old-fashioned values - and they are very hard to find, particularly in L.A.
Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.
I believe in gender equality and I love that I can represent strong modern-day women.
Women are much more comfortable making their own style rules now. They want pieces that will make their busy lives easier.
The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways; but they do not easily succeed in living completely the life of a human being.
We launched our #WomenWhoWork initiative to show the world what today's modern, professional women really look like. They're invested in their careers, but they're also passionate about priorities outside the office.
Since the Second World War, as female expectations and opportunities have risen, becoming a royal woman - and remaining a royal woman - has seemed less and less an attractive proposition.
For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.
There used to be a category called women's fiction - meaning not too rude, not too much sex, a bit domestic and internal. Women have changed so much. We're so varied. And we've become more interested in the same varied experience in fiction.
Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that.
I think women today are so overwhelmed and overtaxed.
I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.
The new Ann Taylor is for modern women who want to take on the world in style.
It's just a given that women are working and are ambitious and have things they want to accomplish, and that stymies the amount of time they have to look around for a perfect guy.
I feel like there are so few girls in New York like that anymore, who are not focused on getting a man with money.
Women have never been as interesting as they are now. Not at any time on this planet have women been so educated, so interesting, so capable.
Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.
The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave.
