Best quotes by Sarah Gavron on Women

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• ‟ I remember my grandfather believed women were second-class citizens and told my mother that it was a shame she had brains because she was a girl and shouldn't carry on her education.

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• ‟ Women in Film and Television is such an important body.

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• ‟ I started to have these ideas for films. They were like running images in my head. But I didn't think I could be a director. I just literally didn't think it was a possibility. Then I started to suddenly see films of women.

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• ‟ I would love to see more diversity on all sides, and not just in terms of women; we need people from different walks of life making films.

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• ‟ It's interesting when you read the debates in parliaments between MPs about whether they should give women a vote. It's a lot of fear; it is fear of change. It's fear if women get to vote, family structures will break down. Women will stop having children. Women won't vote for war.

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• ‟ Having the vote is just symbolic. There are still many issues on which women don't have any right and, in many countries, where women are given very very few rights.

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• ‟ The suffragettes were women of action. Their motto was 'Deeds not Words,' and the film reflects that with a number of big set pieces, from the smashing of windows in central London to a riot at the Houses of Parliament.

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• ‟ It was important to focus on working-class women because we so rarely focus, particularly in period films, on the working people. The suffragettes brought together women of all classes, which was one of the striking things about the movement.

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• ‟ So many women don't have voices in their governments.

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• ‟ I think the main thing for young women is to have confidence and not be afraid to challenge continuing inequalities, because that's the only way you'll get change.

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• ‟ With 'Suffragette,' I was emboldened that there were so many women around me. We had a female writer, producers, production and costume designers.

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• ‟ I'm so aware how often women's bodies are objectified on film.

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• ‟ I think it's great to be talked about as a woman film-maker. It's part of who I am; it affects me daily. I want it to be part of the conversation. I'm for any scheme or initiative that gives women a way in.

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• ‟ We need to have more conversations about representation as well as the imbalance in terms of needing more women behind the camera and in front of the camera, and the diversity factor.

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• ‟ I was taught nothing about the suffragettes in school. The version I eventually got was mainly about the peaceful campaigning of the constitutional suffragists. Their work was vital, but there was this other, not widely known story of the women who risked everything, who were prepared to break every taboo.

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