"What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have."

"I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans."

"I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one."

"I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans."

"I can be attracted to a woman sexually, but it doesn't mean I want to be in love with a woman."

"I love Shirley Maclaine, love that woman."

"I've never been a fluffy sort of woman."

"Every casting director I've met is a woman."

"The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back"

"I think that women are afraid to say they don't want children because they're going to get shunned."

"Usually, when it's a story about three women all being involved with the same man, it ends in some eyeballs being scratched out and some weaves being snatched off."

"When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. There was this idea with my parents' generation that in order to find equality, a woman would need to behave like a man."

"Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters that are complex and interesting and believable."

"Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing."

"Joss Whedon is a hero of mine, and what he's done for women in film and television, particularly when it comes to writing female roles that would typically go to a man, is awesome."

"I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'"

"A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please."

"What does it mean, being a woman?"

"The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else."

"Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me."

"Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves."

"I am a native Frenchwoman and proud of it."

"Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman."

"Then sing as Martin Luther sang:"Who loves not wine, woman, and song,He is a fool his whole life long!"