Okay, it’s time for this week’s feminist film question! Huzzah! We asked you: What are your favorite quotes from women-centric films? Here’s what you said:
“Get away from her you bitch.” — Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), Aliens
“Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.” — Margo Channing (Bette Davis),
All About Eve
The whole universe depends on everything fitting together just right. If one piece busts, even the smallest piece… the whole universe will get busted.” — Hushpuppy (Quvenzhane Wallis), Beasts of the Southern Wild
“When it all goes quiet behind my eyes, I see everything that made me flying around in invisible pieces.” — Hushpuppy (Quvenzhane Wallis), Beasts of the Southern Wild
“I want my freedom.” — Princess Merida (Kelly Macdonald), Brave
“I’m life, Annie, and I’m biting you in the ass.” Megan (Melissa McCarthy), Bridesmaids
“All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. A girl child ain’t safe in a family of men, but I ain’t never thought I’d have to fight in my own house!” — Sofia (Oprah Winfrey), The Color Purple
“What you have to do is lose your reputation, then you can do whatever the hell you want.” —
Función de noche
“Hello, gorgeous.” Fannie Brice (Barbara Streisand), Funny Girl
“Please, please, please give me back my pleasure.” — sung at the very beginning of Sally Potter’s The Gold Diggers
“As God is my witness, they’re not going to lick me. I’m going to live through this and when it’s all over, I’ll never be hungry again.” — Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh),
Gone with the Wind
“After all, tomorrow is another day!” — Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh), Gone with the Wind
“We’re legitimate citizens. We’re taxed without representation. We’re not allowed to serve on juries so we’re not tried by our peers. It’s unconscionable, not to mention unconstitutional. We don’t make the laws but we have to obey them like children.” — Alice Paul (Hilary Swank), Iron Jawed Angels
“I am sitting here in my own house, minding my own business, playing my own piano.” — Vienna (Joan Crawford), Johnny Guitar
“Hi, my name’s Mae and that’s more than a name, that’s an attitude” — Mae Mordabito (Madonna),
A League of Their Own
“You tell ol’ rich Mr. Old Chocolate Man that he ain’t closing ME down!” — Mae Mordabito (Madonna), A League of Their Own
“Feminine weaknesses and fainting spells are the direct result of our confining young girls to the house, bent over their needlework, and restrictive corsets.” — Marmee (Susan Sarandon), Little Women
“I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country.” — Jo March (Winona Ryder) Little Women
“Don’t be such a beetle! I could never love anyone as I love my sisters.” — Jo March (Winona Ryder), Little Women
“I am no MAN!” — Eowyn (Miranda Otto), Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
“I thought I was headed to a place that would turn out tomorrow’s leaders, not their wives!” — Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts), Mona Lisa Smile
“Not all who wander are aimless. Especially not those who seek truth beyond tradition, beyond definition, beyond the image.” — Betty Warren (Kirsten Dunst), Mona Lisa Smile
“My spirit takes journey, my spirit takes flight, could not have risen otherwise and I am not running, I am choosing. Running is not a choice from the breaking. Breaking is freeing, broken is freedom. I am not broken, I am free.” — Alike (Adepero Oduye),
Pariah
“Once, there was this day… this one day when… everyone realized they needed each other.” — April Burns (Katie Holmes), Pieces of April
“I’m gonna break through or somebody gonna break through to me.” — Clareece ‘Precious’ Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), Precious
“Some folks has a lot of things around them that shines for other peoples. I think that maybe some of them was in tunnels. And in that tunnel, the only light they had, was inside of them. And then long after they escape that tunnel, they still be shining for everybody else.” — Clareece ‘Precious’ Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), Precious
“If you cant say something nice abt someone, come sit beside me.” — Clairee Belcher (Olympia Dukakis), Steel Magnolias
“Construct your autobiography before someone does it for you.” — Barbara Hammer, Tender Fictions
“You do know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.” Marie ‘Slim’ Browning (Lauren Bacall), To Have and Have Not
“Sometimes you have to create your own history.” — Cheryl Dunye (Cheryl),
The Watermelon Woman
“Except my name. I’ll give up all that other stuff, but only if I get to keep my name. I’ve worked to hard for it, your honor.” — Tina Turner (Angela Bassett), What’s Love Got to Do With It?
“I’m ready. I’m ready and I know what I want.” — Tina Turner (Angela Bassett), What’s Love Got to Do With It?
“I’ll have what she’s having.” — When Harry Met Sally…
“Well, put some skates on, be your own hero.” — Maggie Mayhem (Kristen Wiig), Whip It
What your fave film quotes? Tell us in the comments!
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2 quotes from Ginger Snaps: “It feels so… good, Brigitte. It’s like touching yourself. You know every move… right on the fucking dot. And after, you see fucking fireworks. Supernovas. I’m a goddamn force of nature. I feel like I could do just about anything.” /// “No one ever thinks chicks do shit like this. A girl can only be a slut, bitch, tease or the virgin next door. We’ll just coast on how the world works.”
“Too many guys think I’m a concept, or I complete them, or I’m gonna make them alive. But I’m just a fucked-up girl who’s lookin’ for my own peace of mind; don’t assign me yours.” — Clementine (Kate Winslet), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
“Forget it! I’m stayin’ right where I am. It’s gonna take you and the police department and the fire department and the National Guard to get me outta here!” — Norma Rae (Sally Field), Norma Rae
Yes, I can be very cruel. I have been taught by masters. –The Heiress
You have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go out and find a good use for your talent. Go and embrace your liberty, and see what wonderful things come of it. –Little Women
It’ll be no use their putting their heads down and saying “come upon again, dear!” I shall only look up and say “who am I, then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I’ll come up: if not, I’ll stay down here till I’m somebody else.” –Alice in Wonderland
I’m nobody’s little weasel. –Amelie
They say it’s the last song. It’s only the last song if you let it be. –Dancer in the Dark
Looove Ginger Snaps. One of my favourite films ever.