Female Gaze Quotes

“There’s something different about when a female directs versus a male. The level of maturity, mutual respect, and energy that you get from a female director is so different. I’ve worked with male directors who aren’t good, and no one says anything about it, but then we had one female director who was kind of all over the place and everyone complained. It’s so gendered. I feel safer when working with a female director because I know it’s from a female gaze.”
― Rowan Blanchard

“We have not yet heard enough, if anything, about the female gaze. About the scorch of it.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“Women who are encouraged to complain of 'harassment' have never felt the nasty draft that whistles round a man subjected to female scrutiny. The masculine leer at least is warmed by the breath of inquisitive lust. It may be tedious, even offensive, but it must be preferable to the rubber-glove approach of the female National Health Medical: one's brains as well as balls are up for grabs.”
― John Osborne, Looking Back: Never Explain, Never Apologise

“Fans like me don't watch hockey, we read it. The hockey nexus - the league, owners, teams, players, media and advertisers - under-reads hockey and overlooks those parts of the game women respond to, like scruffish players in sharp suits saying hi to Mom back home in Cranbrook.”
― Lorna Jackson, Cold-Cocked: On Hockey

“On sent la différence si tu es en train de danser avec le personnage ou si tu regardes son corps danser. C'est un langage visuel. Si la cause des femmes t'intéresse, ton objectif le montrera.”
― Iris Brey, Le regard féminin - Une révolution à l'écran

“Vreemd bleef de vrouw van het heden de drie primitieve mannen van een vorige generatie aanzien met den voor hen onbeschaamden blik. Zij hadden het pijnlijke gevoel met den blik gemonsterd te worden, waarmee zij vroeger zelf vrouwen aankeken en op haar vrouwelijke waarde schatten. En het was een oogenblik, als voelden zij zich het zwakkere geslacht en stond daar voor hen het sterkere: de moderne vrouw.”
― Henri van Wermeskerken

“I'm disgusted with myself, for being distracted, for knowingly letting every sliver of feminism shrivel up and die over dimples and thick thighs.”
― Hannah Grace, Icebreaker