You get angry and frustrated wondering, 'Are there enough parts for women?'
— Sissy Spacek
Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.
Being a mother is complicated because it's not just a paternal culture making demands on you; it's those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.
— Siri Hustvedt
It was a reaction to when I was growing up, and women were supposed to be all blonde hair, gold suntan, and pink lips. It was a real black-and-white opposite of what was considered attractive. I was kicking against something I found really oppressive.
— Siouxsie Sioux
I got old the way that women who aren't actresses grow old.
— Simone Signoret
I think as soon as you're a woman, or any minority doing something, you automatically become a representative for it, and I think a lot of brilliant women's interviews are being wasted on talking about what it's like being a woman.
— Simone Giertz
Baby girls, as young as 12 months old, respond more empathically to the distress of other people, showing greater concern through more sad looks, sympathetic vocalisations and comforting. This echoes what you find in adulthood: more women report frequently sharing the emotional distress of their friends.
— Simon Baron-Cohen
Every time there's a really good story, there's women in it. We may not get as many roles, but the roles we get are really good, I think, for the most part.
— Sigourney Weaver
In Hollywood, women hate each other.
— Sienna Guillory
My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me.
— Sidney Poitier
Indian women usually tend to forget themselves once married.
— Shweta Tripathi
In Mahesh Manjrekar's films, women find their way into a realistic story in the most convincing way.
— Shruti Haasan
Mirzapur's female characters are very strong, liberated women. Infact, the boys are leaning on us and we are contributing to the plot in a very strong manner.
— Shriya Pilgaonkar
I don't care what color you are, what size you are, where you're from. It is disturbing that there's an idea that only tall, thin, willowy, size 0 women are attractive - even for the tall, thin, willowy, size 0 woman! We all should get to feel like there's something powerful and beautiful about who we are.
— Shonda Rhimes
I think that women are raised to believe that they're supposed to want certain things, and so you feel like you're supposed to apologize when you don't want those things.
We have people say, 'There's not enough women writers.' I have a writers room that is almost nothing but women over at 'Grey's Anatomy.'
The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.
— Shirley Williams
I think that we all fantasize about that teeny tiny time in the film industry when women ruled, back in the '40s.
No one could touch the home cooking of an Italian woman. French women, they are very intelligent, very sexy - but they don't like to cook.
— Sirio Maccioni
With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee Krasner, are only fully embraced very late in their career.
People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.
Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.
— Simone Schwarz-Bart
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
— Simone de Beauvoir
I wish the world was run by women. Women who have given birth and know the value of their creation.
— Simin Daneshvar
I'm no Ripley. I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she had to be played, but I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don't get to do that very often.
Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.
— Sidney Sheldon
I really think that Muslim people should stop raising their boys and girls that way. They instill a macho culture right from the start of childhood. And if you have never learned to treat girls and women respectfully, you will never be able to act differently later on than the men in your culture, and in your family. That's fact.
— Sibel Kekilli
Sexuality and sensuality exists in every women, along with innocence, and I have represented only those through my characters.
— Shweta Menon
We need to put an end to discrimination against women, and the power to bring about this change lies in our hands.
The old school mentality has gone and paved the way for many educated women to enter the movie profession.
— Shraddha Srinath
I don't know that I think women have to throw out the fairy tale ending. I just think they have to decide what their fairy tale ending is - and not go with the standard one that everyone's told them they're supposed to have.
My favorite thing to do is rip the covers off a script when reading for writers to hire and make everybody read without names on the covers of the script. I can't tell you how many times my writers, women and men, will pick people of color and women much more often than they would with a cover on the script.
Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.
Men say, 'I've loved you since I was 7 years old,' and I say, 'Well, you never contacted me.' And very often women say, 'Do youuuuuu know what I have?' and I want to say, 'Yessssssss, I do.' Because inevitably the answer is, 'An original Shirley Temple doll.'
— Shirley Temple
I love the women I've played.
Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.
Bottom line: Black men like curves. When they're crooning to women about how beautiful they are in an R&B song, the ladies you see in the video don't reflect what those guys like.
— Sir Mix-a-Lot
It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still.
I've always avoided making being a woman my main asset and unique selling point. If it is then you'll start seeing other women as competition, and that's the last thing you need when entering a very male-dominated field.
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
I am inspired by many young women, not only in my industry but across others.
— Sigrid
It's so hard for women in this business. And I want to be doing this when I'm 50.
— Sienna Miller
The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.
A lot of people in Islamic countries are taking it as a personal offense when people are talking about the violence against women in their culture.
I read interviews saying women can bring a femininity to a song, a delicacy, but some women make really aggressive music.
— Shura
Though the characters I have played are all very different, they are all strong, interesting women.
People want to see real women on screen.
There's always women of many different races on my shows, and there are always women who look many different ways, but there is still a size thing in this industry. It's hard. I mean to have to say, 'I want a larger woman to be an actor on my shows.' Or, 'Find me a larger woman,' is almost insulting to me.
I keep getting asked how I write about such smart, strong women, and my response is, what's the alternative? Weak, stupid women? They're just normal people, not role models - if you're aspiring to be like any of them, something's a little bit wrong. You may want to dress like one or have her job, but do not aspire to be her!
I do fairly represent Middle Eastern women.
— Shohreh Aghdashloo
