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So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women. — Brit Marling

It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women. — Susan Sarandon

There are not many roles where women are really active. — Kathleen Quinlan

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed. — Samantha Mathis

I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person. — Melinda Clarke

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act. — Rebecca Solnit

Boyhood proves that there's still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you're under 40. — Tina Fey

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation. — Patricia Hill Collins

Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities. — Wilma Mankiller

There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living. — Gaby Hoffmann

Men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus instead we are all people. Deal with it. — Shahla Khan

What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual women in television and in film. That's what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary. — Maggie Gyllenhaal

Clearly i Bible times, women were used in ministry leadership roles, and still are today. — Debora Hooper

A feminist is just someone who recognizes power structures that keep people from having the fullest life they can. — Lauren Groff

I like a bit of spunk in a lady — Lauren Groff

Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty. — Kristin Scott Thomas

Women have traditionally took secondary roles to men. I want to be the boss not the secretary. — Bianca Frazier

When you're asking about roles for men and women, men certainly have a longer shelf life. Men can play the sexy lead for 20 years longer than we can. — Jennifer Lawrence

Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women. — Julianna Margulies

Women had no clerical role anywhere in the Western world, period. — Mitch Horowitz

Gender roles suck, says Swift Fox.
Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby. — Margaret Atwood

When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles. — Annette Bening

You can be any sex you like provided you act male. There's no men and women in the Watch, just a bunch of lads. — Terry Pratchett

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man. — Charles Dickens

Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics, — Meryl Streep

Once we increase the proportion of women in technical roles, the challenge is to retain them and ease the transition to senior positions. — Vivek Wadhwa

Immigration was a huge force in changing my outlook. I moved to America 30 years ago. I had to reassess my beliefs, especially about women's roles. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be. — Sheryl Sandberg

Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating. — Germaine Greer

The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older. — Idina Menzel

I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English. — Paz Vega

Martin: Yes, I'd like to go home and do some work. I'm writing a novel about women from the women's point of view. — Caryl Churchill

Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women, — Aaron Sorkin

It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things. — Charlotte Bronte

Americans have gotten to know Sarah Palin. They know that she's a role model to women and other - and reformers all over America. She's a reformer. — John McCain

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful. — Robert Webb

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk. — Jennifer Doudna

I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles. — Zoe Saldana

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become. — Germaine Greer

There's a lot of good roles for men, always, and for very young girls. But for women, not so many. — Emmanuelle Seigner

I single handedly revolutionised women's roles in the WWE, before me all women were eye candy. — Amy Dumas

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time. — Sally Quinn

I'm not sure how we got to this place, where a girl's only value is in what kind of marriage she has, how capable she is of keeping a man happy. — Amy Engel

I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives that continue to write lead roles for us. — Viola Davis

Oh, dear
did I forget to mention that you can, indeed, have it all, but you need a lot of help! — Will Schwalbe

When we have to make a list of exceptions to apply a model of womanhood, it is good to ask whether that model holds much meaning. — Katelyn Beaty

I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women. — Katori Hall

I once took on the role of the Batman for a commercial about equal pay for women. — Richard Gautier

A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything. — Liu Cixin

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles. — Julia Stiles

In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role. — Liz W. Garcia

If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women. — David Riesman

Just because we are women doesn't mean the only roles we can play are that of the finger-shaking girlfriend. — Sarah Shahi

Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies. — Kyra Sedgwick

In a lot of roles, strong women feel like they need to apologize. But men don't need to apologize for being ruthless and women somehow do? — Rodrigo Santoro

I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out. — Ziyi Zhang

The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful. — Kathleen Turner

I like to play smart, three-dimensional women. I also like to play roles where the women are a little crazy. I just have a feel for crazy people. — Lili Taylor

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles. — Maureen O'Hara

Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal. — Harri Holkeri

There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should. — William H. Macy

I saw my role as prime minister's wife as being human towards other humans and not treating them badly. — Margaret Whitlam

Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write good roles for women of every age. — Brit Marling

Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable. — Jeane Kirkpatrick

Conditions for all women will improve when there are more women in leadership roles giving strong and powerful voice to their needs and concerns. — Sheryl Sandberg

I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now. — Maggie Gyllenhaal

At the drop of a hat, people will say there are no roles for women after 40. It's there with a bunch of other rules I'm not interested in. — Lesley Nicol

What I learned was there's no roles for women who won't be in their 40s. For women who will be in their 40s, there's a ton of work. — Sharon Stone

The roles for women in theatre are much better than they are in film. — Kim Cattrall

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. — Margaret Thatcher

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men? ... Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act. — David Henry Hwang

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines. — Iris Murdoch

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. — Oscar Wilde

Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning. — Sheila Jeffreys

It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean. — Virginia Petrucci

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men. — Leslie Mann

Our society and institutions are built to push men and women into different roles. We need to change that. — Caroline Criado-Perez

It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women. — Rosanna Arquette

So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you. — Felicity Kendal