To me, what hurts me, is the fact that you are told all the times: “we are equal”, like “I don’t know what is your deal” like “what is your fucking issue with this or with that?” and then… but then you realize: no, actually we are not! You are getting paid more than I, you get to have more options in terms of what you want to watch for entertainment. When you go to the movies you have 90 movies, 90 different stories that you can watch through your eyes, through the eyes of a male. And one complain that I might make - one observation - that’s actually very very truth about the fact that there isn’t enough things for us, for women out there, it’s like “shut up!”. I mean “why aren’t you happy? Why can’t you be more like every girl?”, like “why do you have to always try to be a man?”. It’s not even about trying to be a man, it’s about trying to be significant, trying to feel equal…
Zoe Saldana - The Conversation with Amanda De Cadenet (
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