It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck - and women loved it.
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Related I didn't think of 'Thelma and Louise' as a feminist movie. CALLIE KHOURI 'Thelma & Louise' really hit a nerve, and I loved that movie. RICHARD LAGRAVENESE I wrote 'Thelma & Louise' in 1988, and we shot it in 1990. Everyone kept saying, 'Th... CALLIE KHOURI When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me. CALLIE KHOURI I don't think any studio - it was a long shot at the time - but I don't think any studio in ... CALLIE KHOURI I'm taking my rats. Those are my friends for the tour. Thelma and Louise. They're so cute. PINK One thing about 'Thelma & Louise' we can't forget: Brad Pitt. Oh, yes. KRISTAN HIGGINS I'm obsessed with 'Thelma and Louise,' and therefore obsessed with Callie Khouri who wro... CONNIE BRITTON Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands... JESSICA SAVITCH What's happened with the over-the-counter birth control issue is that the Democrats didn't s... 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It's just a fear of... K. D. LANG We had a moment in the '40s and '50s, where female characters were very strong in film, wher... MONICA BELLUCCI All the women I've grown up with at 'SNL' and other areas, and even the women that work ... PAULA PELL It's rare to see women in a film who are not somehow validated by a male or discussing a male or... DAKOTA FANNING When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it.... MANAL AL-SHARIF Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida ... ISABELLA ROSSELLINI Others have said it before me. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the... ELIZABETH WARREN I just think that there's so much judgment in the world, whether it's coming from women in g... HILARY DUFF The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women do... JEAN PAUL GAULTIER In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up an... SCOTT ADAMS I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a pr... BETTY FRIEDAN It's interesting that, given our culture has so many words that refer to women in a truly deroga... SARA SHERIDAN Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it'... SOPHIA BUSH It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginat... A. S. BYATT Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fe... PATRICIA SCHROEDER Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues... JESSICA VALENTI I grew up among strong women so I know what it's like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat. CHRIS O'DOWD There's no question there needs to be higher-paying opportunities for women. It's not that i... PATRICK WHITESELL It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on ... INES DE LA FRESSANGE I have experienced bad dating and ineptitude with women all across the globe, from Vietnam to Paris.... STEPHEN MERCHANT I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong ... MARTHA PLIMPTON I have found that women have so much unleashed power that they don't really utilize because they... CAITLYN JENNER There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black wom... AVA DUVERNAY My mother and my two grandmothers, I was lucky to have three women around me growing up that were ve... FRANCOIS NARS I love women's fashion, but women don't need me as much as men do. It's the men who have... ROBERTO CAVALLI What doesn't confuse me about what women wear? When it comes to women's fashion I'm so o... PAUL WESLEY As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't unti... JENNY ECLAIR This is a generalization, but I think women's brains are more accessible to ideas and difference... ALBERT BROOKS Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking 'Can women be ... JULIE WALTERS It's an established fact. Some women can't stand being pregnant, getting big and bloated, an... RICH COHEN I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capaciti... MAGGIE HASSAN Yes, some women are funny. No, some women aren't funny. It's similar to how some women are t... ELLIE KEMPER With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women art... SIRI HUSTVEDT As more women 'lean in' and we collectively continue to fight sexism, there's another ba... ADAM GRANT There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales compan... OLIVIA WILDE Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find ... YOKO ONO The women of my generation and my daughter's generation, they were very active in moving along t... RUTH BADER GINSBURG For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the... ADAM GRANT It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too,... CYBILL SHEPHERD
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