Women In Film Quotes

“Her words are her wings. She's flying.”
― A.D. Posey

“Music is a writer's heartbeat.”
― A.D. Posey

“A loving heart, determination, faith, courage, trust, belief, truth, and a solid soul create the wings with which we fly.”
― A.D. Posey

“Gratitude is the gateway to a positive life.”
― A.D. Posey

“We encounter truth within.”
― A.D. Posey

“Transform into your dream.”
― A.D. Posey

“Beauty is light set free.”
― A.D. Posey

“One day, your light will silence the darkness, and you will be surrounded by the beauty within.”
― A.D. Posey

“That which is cool is driven by the soul.”
― A.D. Posey

“Be one with yourself and revel in eternal bliss.”
― A.D. Posey

“Believe so brightly that everyone sees the beauty in believing.”
― A.D. Posey

“Life is magic.”
― A.D. Posey

“Be still in peace and reach your highest peak.”
― A.D. Posey

“The best writing speaks when the heart whispers.”
― A.D. Posey

“Film gives us a second chance at a first impression.”
― A.D. Posey

“Every day is not a day to master but an adventure to experience.”
― A.D. Posey

“Kind words change the world.”
― A.D. Posey

“Our peace is our purpose.”
― A.D. Posey

“I am slightly offended by the way busy working women my age are presented in film. I'm not, like, always barking orders into my hands-free phone device and telling people constantly, "I have no time for this!" I didn't completely forget how to be nice and feminine because I have a career.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“When is now.”
― A.D. Posey

“You heard me cry long before I knew my voice.”
― A.D. Posey

“It was a split [between the way I was saw myself…and the way I was expected to behave] that brought up to date the age-old dualism between body and soul, virgin and whore. (Haskell xiii)”
― Molly Haskell

“We lied and manipulated and pretended to be helpless and were guilty of conspiring in our own idealization – and our own oppression. For whatever else may have been our goals, we still assumed that the need men and women had for each other, and its satisfaction, was indissolubly linked to their roles as conqueror and conquered, and we accepted all the implications that followed from that first parsing of human nature into active and passive…. The yins and yangs of heterosexual romance, the power differential between the ‘stronger’ and the ‘weaker’ sex… (xv).”
― Molly Haskell, From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies

“In the dark melodramas of the forties, woman came down from her pedestal and she didn’t stop when she reached the ground. She kept going – down, down, like Eurydice, to the depths of the criminal world, the enfer of the film noir – and then compelled her lover to glance back and betray himself…. But for all her guts and valor, and for all her unredeemable venality…she hadn’t a soul she could call her own. She was, in fact, a male fantasy. She was playing a man’s game in a man’s world of crime and carnal innuendo, where her long hair was the equivalent of a gun, where sex was the equivalent of evil. And where her power to destroy was projection of man’s feeling of impotence. Only this could never be spelled out; hence the subterfuge and melodrama. She is to her thirties’ counterpart as night – or dusk – is to day. And the difference between their worlds, between the drawing room of romantic comedy and the underground of melodrama, is the difference between flirtation and fornication … or rape” (Haskell 191).”
― Molly Haskell, From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies

“Happiness is individualized. Don't box it in. Let it fly.”
― A.D. Posey

“Drizzle happiness wherever you go.”
― A.D. Posey

“All uniquely defines itself.”
― A.D. Posey

“Hollywood shines by virtue of light within.”
― A.D. Posey

“So my generation fell into the trap, internalizing the either/or as we thought of ourselves as ‘hot’ or ‘cold’ and falling victim, once again, to the terms by which our sex had been conveniently divided for so many years. To the degree that sex was the equivalent of the self, surrender to sex was to lose oneself, whereas abstinence would insure its safeguarding, if not its salvation (viv).”
― Molly Haskell

“Like many junior executives, Dawn Steel served as punching bag/chum for her bosses. Once the marketing chief, Frank Mancuso, asked her to tell Steven Spielberg the release date of one of his movies; Spielberg immediately retorted, “Who are you to tell me when the release date is?”
― Rachel Abramowitz, Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?: Women's Experience of Power in Hollywood