I was lucky to work with Gamec…

I was lucky to work with Gamechanger Films, who are a consortium of investors financing films directed by women. This is a company that puts their money where their mouth is.

Karyn Kusama


While The Help is in so many w…

While 'The Help' is in so many ways a celebration of these women's friendships and what they overcome, it's also very truthful and very painful, and it was intense for my mom to read that.

Bryce Dallas Howard


Fleabag knows men and women ar…

Fleabag knows men and women are equal and should be treated as such, but what she's confused about – and what I was confused about – was the idea that wanting bigger boobs doesn't mean you don't want equal rights.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge


Women of all ethnicities, comp…

Women of all ethnicities, complexions, and sizes want to be able to wear makeup and nice clothes. No one wants to go out and feel like they're substandard or that there's only one mold that they don't fit.

Philomena Kwao


Aggressive female icons have b…

Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned… It's fine for male artists to be angry – they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression – but women? I've been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I'm blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright.

Lydia Lunch


With shows with plus-sized cha…

With shows with plus-sized characters, there are all of these lines of being jealous at so and so or mad at so and so for being skinny and their great diets. It's so all-encompassing and exhausting. I'm not saying that's not some women, but it's just not all of us.

Donna Lynne Champlin