If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the pressure girls face to conform to male-defined standards of femininity.
Ellen Page highlights the struggle that girls encounter when they do not fit into the narrow and often unrealistic expectations set by society, particularly those shaped by male perspectives. This results in a sense of confusion or loss, as these imposed ideals can overshadow individual identities and self-worth.
In practice
This quote can be used in discussions about women's rights and the importance of self-identity in feminist movements.
This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another. If we took just five minutes to recognize each other's beauty instead of attacking each other for our differences - that's not hard - it's really an easier and better way to live.
I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word?
I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.
The more time went by, the more something just happened, an Oh my god - I want to love someone freely and walk down the street and hold my girlfriend's hand.
You think you're in a place where you're all 'I'm thrilled to be gay, I have no issues about being gay anymore, I don't feel shame about being gay,' but you actually do. You're just not fully aware of it. I think I still felt scared about people knowing. I felt awkward around gay people; I felt guilty for not being myself.
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.
...a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with.
Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin "helping' them. Such a world does not exist - never has.
Patriarchy appears to be everywhere. Even outer space and the future have been colonized. As a rule, even the more imaginative science-fiction writers (allegedly the most foretelling futurists) cannot/will not create a space and time in which women get far beyond the role of space stewardess.
While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.
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