Quotes About Expression

Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school.

I don't want to be pigeonholed into doing just romantic comedies. But they're fun, and especially for women, it's nice to go to see them and enjoy that breath of fresh air.

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

As long as music of mine is not used to preach hate, or to bash women, it's okay for me. If it doesn't promote violence against women, drugs, this and that, use it, go ahead.

I'm very sensual and very rhythm-oriented and into poetry. Women can feel that.

I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.

I love Audrey Hepburn, early Brooke Shields, and Madonnas eyebrows. I think its beautiful if women look soft and touchable instead of hard, sharp and aggressively groomed.

Women are terrified of their sexuality because they've got so much of it, and we live in a society that says they don't.

Women need a space to be creative -- creativity thrives in solitude.

I get to represent a lot of different types of women because of my ability to transform into these different people.

I love writing for and about women. In my whole career I have.

I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the Great American Novel.

There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset.

I don't think there's any pop music directed at the peculiar class of anger that I know women of my age feel.

Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all is a political statement. A woman speaking her truth creates a feminist film.

Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak of our own doubts, while dubiously we mother man in his doubt!

My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.

A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

I love telling stories; I always have, and I think women need to be more proactive about telling their own stories and sharing their points of view. So that's definitely a goal for me.

When I would ask women to tell me landays, and they were comfortable enough to do so, they'd tell me ones that reflected the state of their own lives.

Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!

I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.

I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.